落土

Chinese

Etymology 1

		to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
trad. (落土)		落	土
simp. #(落土)		落	土

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luòtǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄊㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lok⁶ tou²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lo̍h-thó͘ / lo̍k-thó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luòtǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luòtǔ
    • Wade–Giles: lo⁴-tʻu³
    • Yale: lwò-tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luohtuu
    • Palladius: лоту (lotu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ⁵¹ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lok⁶ tou²
    • Yale: lohk tóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lok⁹ tou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: log⁶ tou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːk̚² tʰou̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍h-thó͘
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍h-thóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loiqtor
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ tʰɔ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lo(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ tʰɔ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍k-thó͘
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍k-thóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: logtor
    • IPA (Taipei): /lɔk̚⁴⁻³² tʰɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔk̚⁴⁻³² tʰɔ⁴¹/

Verb

落土

1. (of the sun or the moon) to set
2. (Hokkien) to bury; to inter

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 落土 – see 落塗 (“to sow seeds; to bury; to inter; etc.”). (This term is a variant form of 落塗).