Today’s #kanji is 落, which is listed under its semantic element of #くさかんむり（艹）. Its phonetic element is 洛, which has the meaning of falling.
Meaning: to fall, to drop, to lose, to defeat
Reading: ラク、お
落（ラク）書（が）き: graffiti, scribbling, doodling
落語（ラクゴ）: a comic story told by a professional story teller
落札（ラクサツ）: a successful bid
落第（ラクダイ）する: to fail (an examination); to be rejected
陥落（カンラク）する: to surrender, to fall, to be reduced to a lower rank, to be demoted
集落（シュウラク）: a community, a settlement, a town, a village
転落（テンラク）する: to fall, to roll off, to degrade
落（お）ちる: (vi) to fall, to drop, to collapse; to set, to sink; to be left out; to come off; to fail
落（お）とす: (vt) to drop, to throw down; to lose, to take away, to remove; to deduct, etc.
洒落（シャレ）: a witticism, a joke, a pun, word play
お洒落（おシャレ）: dressing up, putting on nice clothes
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