Meanings
Verb (1-dan, intransitive)
1. to fall down; to drop; to fall (e.g. rain); to sink (e.g. sun or moon); to fall onto (e.g. light or one's gaze); to be used in a certain place (e.g. money)
occ. 堕ちる for depravity and 墜ちる for a crash
2. to be omitted; to be missing
3. to decrease; to sink
4. to fail (e.g. exam or class); to lose (contest, election, etc.)
5. to crash; to degenerate; to degrade; to fall behind
6. to become indecent (of a conversation)
7. to be ruined; to go under
8. to fade; to come out (e.g. a stain); to come off (e.g. makeup); to be removed (e.g. illness, possessing spirit, name on a list)
9. to fall (into someone's hands); to become someone's possession
10. to fall (into a trap); to fall (for a trick)
11. to give in; to give up; to confess; to flee
12. to fall; to be defeated; to surrender
13. to come to (in the end); to end in
14. to fall (in love, asleep, etc.)
15. to swoon (judo)
16. to consent; to understand
17. to go down (of a website, server, etc.); to crash
18. to log out (of an online game, chat room, etc.); to drop out; to leave; to go offline
19. to die
of animals
20. to move to the depths
of fish when it gets cold
Kanji used
fall down
Pitch accent
Top 400
Used in vocabulary (51 in total)
to crumble down; to tumble down; to fall in
to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)
to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied
Examples (105 in total)
I fell down the steps.
I'm afraid to fall.
The boy fell off the bed.