• 落おちる — to fall
• 落おとす — to drop
• 落らく書がき — graffiti
• 落らく第だい — failing a class
• 落らく葉よう — fallen leaves
• 落らく語ご — Rakugo (comic storytelling)

The top radical 艹 (くさかんむり) hints at leaves or plants. The phonetic part 洛 (らく) gives the reading. Together, the character symbolizes leaves or things falling. Over time, it also came to mean “decline” or “fail.”

葉はが落おちました。
The leaf fell.

テストに落おちました。
I failed the test.

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