Kanji
Readingおと
Frequency1%
Used in (63 in total)
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
lost property; something dropped and left behind
dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
to thrust down; to push off
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
to knock down; to shoot down; to lop off
to shake off; to throw off
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
to kick down; to defeat
pitfall; trap; pit
to take down in notes (meeting minutes, etc.); to apply (concepts, ideas, etc. to specific processes or methods); to drop into something (e.g. a bag); to entice; to lure
dropping (something) headfirst down a precipice; downhill rush; plunging down a precipice
to persuade; to prevail upon; to win a woman's heart; to win over; to talk someone into doing
to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)
discouragement; disappointment; loss of energy; fatigue
to take by storm (e.g. a castle); to assault; to capture; to reduce
lid resting directly on food; wooden drop-lid for simmering
ash tray; ash pit
to pull down; to automatically debit (from a bank account)
oversight; omission; something overlooked; thing left unnoticed
persuasion by tears; using tears to get one's way; sob story
chasing down; pushing down; deposing; sacrificing to create a shortage of liberties, then capturing (in the game of go)
settlement for a dispute (esp. one caused by an affront or blunder); money paid to settle a dispute
nobleman's illegitimate child; product (of e.g. war); offspring; aftermath
to sift out; to screen or eliminate (candidates)
to fail to hear; to miss
to leave out; to forget to write
to scrape off; to scrape away; (arch.) to chop off (someone's head)
to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to drop (something) into
point of compromise; common ground
to omit to say; to forget to mention; to leave unsaid
loser; owner of a lost article
illegitimate child (usu. of a nobleman)
escape from evil; exorcism
to knock down the price of; to make a successful bid (for an article); to buy at auction
to persuade by tears; to use tears to get one's way
to wipe off (e.g. dirt); to rub out
allowing oneself meat, fish or alcohol after a period of abstaining
to press (someone to do something); to make confess
body drop (judo); body throw
debit; withdrawal; pulling (one's opponent) down; frontal pull-down; hiki-otoshi
daruma otoshi; toy consisting of vertically stacked wooden blocks that must be knocked away without letting the daruma doll on top fall to the ground
opening of a new theater (theatre)
cutting off the edges (printing, sewing, cooking, etc.); snippets; trimmings; cuttings
letter dropped in the road; Japanese insect
leftover pieces (when slicing meat, fish, cake, etc.); shaved meat; end pieces; clipping
to fail to do; to make light of; to neglect
lifting body slam
trapdoor; flap door
mishearing; failing to catch (something said)
shielding; reverse clipping
lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room; cloud-shaped carving on the bottom of a transom; metallic bowl used to hold the charcoal in a wooden hibachi
omission; oversight
exfoliation; skin cleansing
time-lapse photography
seahorse; sea horse