Jisho

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15 strokes (also 14)
Radical:
earth
Parts:
crash, fall (down)
Kun:
お.ちるお.つ
On:
ツイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1466 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 墜落 【ツイラク】 fall, crash (e.g. aircraft)
  • 墜死 【ツイシ】 falling to one's death
  • 人気失墜 【ニンキシッツイ】 decline in public favor, fall in popularity

Kun reading compounds

  • 落ちる 【おちる】 to fall, to drop, to come down, to crash, to collapse, to cave in, to give way, to set (of the sun or moon), to sink, to dip, to go down, to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.), to fall, to drop, to go down, to decline, to deteriorate, to abate (of wind), to be inferior (to), to be not as good (as), to fall short (of), to come off (of dirt, paint, makeup, etc.), to come out (of a stain), to fade (of colour), to be removed (of an illness, possessing spirit, etc.), to disappear (of excess fat), to become thinner, to become leaner, to be left out, to be omitted, to be missing, to fail (an exam), to lose (a contest, election, etc.), to be unsuccessful, to decline (of morals, character, etc.), to become vulgar (e.g. of a conversation), to stoop (to), to sink (so low), to be ruined, to go under, to fall (into hell), to fall (in love, asleep, etc.), to fall (into someone's hands), to be accepted (of a bid), to be won (of a tender), to be honoured (of a bill), to fall into (a trap), to fall for (a trick), to give in, to confess, to own up, to come to (a conclusion, topic, etc.), to arrive at (in the end), to leave (a city, castle, etc.), to (be defeated and) flee, to sink in, to be accepted (in one's heart), to fall (to the enemy), to be defeated, to come in (of money), to fall (upon; of light, a shadow, one's gaze, etc.), to pass out (in judo), to fall unconscious, to go down (of a website, server, etc.), to crash, to log out (of an online game, chat room, etc.), to drop out, to leave, to go offline, to move to deeper water (of a fish in cold weather), to die (of an animal)
  • 落つ 【おつ】 to fall, to drop

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhui4
Korean:
chu

Spanish

  • caer
  • dejar caer
  • perder

Portuguese

  • colisão
  • queda

French

  • s'écraser
  • tomber
1606 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1316 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1132 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1240 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1166 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1132 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1184 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1218 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
364 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3578 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1842 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2506 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1316 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5451X Morohashi
2881 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1082 New Nelson (John Haig)
1307 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1404 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1751 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3672 2001 Kanji
3b11.7 The Kanji Dictionary
2-12-3 SKIP code
2-11-3 SKIP code
7810.4 Four corner code
1-36-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
589c Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
death, decay 歹 (歺)
Parts:
death, die
Kun:
し.ぬし.に-
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
229 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 死 【シ】 death, (an) out, death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
  • 死因 【シイン】 cause of death
  • 安楽死 【アンラクシ】 euthanasia
  • 病死 【ビョウシ】 death from disease, death from illness

Kun reading compounds

  • 死ぬ 【しぬ】 to die, to pass away, to lose spirit, to lose vigor, to look dead, to cease, to stop
  • 死ぬ気で 【しぬきで】 all out, like hell, like crazy, desperately, expecting to die

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
si3
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • muerte
  • morir

Portuguese

  • morte
  • dados

French

  • mort
  • mourir
223 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
302 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
286 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
254 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2439 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
207 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
205 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
3.5 Japanese for Busy People
85 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
85 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
258 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1133 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4334 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2194 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2952 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
823 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
16365 Morohashi
3521 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2968 New Nelson (John Haig)
815 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
878 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
238 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
267 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3256 2001 Kanji
0a6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-1 SKIP code
1021.1 Four corner code
1021.2 Four corner code
1-27-64 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6b7b Unicode hex code