零落

Chinese

		remnant; zero; to fall	to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind
trad. (零落)		零	落
simp. #(零落)		零	落

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): língluò

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴ lok⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lêng-lo̍k / lêng-lo̍h

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: língluò
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄌㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: língluò
    • Wade–Giles: ling²-lo⁴
    • Yale: líng-lwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lingluoh
    • Palladius: линло (linlo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵ lu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ling⁴ lok⁶
    • Yale: lìhng lohk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁴ lok⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ling⁴ log⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²¹ lɔːk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng-lo̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lîng-lo̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lenglok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² lɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² lɔk̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ¹³⁻²² lɔk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng-lo̍h
    • Tâi-lô: lîng-lo̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lengloih
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³⁻³³ lɤʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² loʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ loʔ⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: lengH lak

Rime
Character	零	落
Reading #	3/3	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	青 (125)	鐸 (103)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	I
Fanqie	郎定切	盧各切
Baxter	lengH	lak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leŋH/	/lɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/leŋH/	/lɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛŋH/	/lɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛjŋH/	/lak̚/
Li Rong	/leŋH/	/lɑk̚/
Wang Li	/lieŋH/	/lɑk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lieŋH/	/lɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lìng	luò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ling6	lok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤiŋ  kə.rˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*reːŋs  ɡ·raːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	零	落
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	líng	luò
Middle Chinese	‹ leng ›	‹ lak ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁiŋ/	/*kə.rˁak/
English	fall (v., of rain)	fall (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	零	落
Reading #	3/3	1/1
No.	8331	3880
Phonetic component	令	各
Rime group	耕	鐸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	零	落
Old Chinese	/*reːŋs/	/*ɡ·raːɡ/

Verb

零落

1. to wither and fall
2. to decline; to wane; to be at a low ebb

Synonyms

• (to wither and fall):

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• 凋落 (diāoluò)
• 凋謝／凋谢 (diāoxiè)
• 凋零 (diāolíng)
• 敗謝／败谢 (bàixiè)
• 脫落／脱落 (tuōluò)

 

• (to decline):

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• 式微 (shìwēi) (literary)
• 敗落／败落 (bàiluò)
• 替 (tì) (literary, or in compounds)
• 沒落／没落 (mòluò)
• 淪落／沦落 (lúnluò)
• 漉柵／漉栅 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 破落 (pòluò) (in wealth and position)
• 衰微 (shuāiwēi) (literary)
• 衰敗／衰败 (shuāibài)
• 衰落 (shuāiluò)
• 陵替 (língtì) (literary)

 

Adjective

零落

1. scattered; sporadic

Synonyms

• 稀疏 (xīshū)

Korean

Hanja in this term
零	落

Noun

零落 • (yeongnak) (hangeul 영락)

1. hanja form^? of 영락 (“withering and falling; decline, waning”)