おと
Meanings
Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)
1. to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind
2. to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape
3. to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)
4. to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances
5. to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with
6. to download; to copy from a computer to another medium
7. to make someone swoon (judo)
8. to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
9. to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)
10. to win over; to seduce; to conquer (unwillingness)
Kanji used
fall down
Pitch accent
Top 10300
Used in vocabulary (22 in total)
to thrust down; to push off
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
to shake off; to throw off
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
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)
to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)
to take by storm (e.g. a castle); to assault; to capture; to reduce
to cut off; to lop off; to prune
to pull down; to automatically debit (from a bank account)
to sift out; to screen or eliminate (candidates)
to fail to hear; to miss
to scrape off; to scrape away; (arch.) to chop off (someone's head)
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 scrape off; to scrape away; (arch.) to chop off (someone's head)
to wipe off (e.g. dirt); to rub out
to press (someone to do something); to make confess
to sift out; to screen or eliminate (candidates)
to scrape off; to scrape away; (arch.) to chop off (someone's head)
Examples (2 in total)
You dropped a bookmark.
Don't drop that cup.