落山

Chinese

		to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind	mountain; hill
trad. (落山)		落	山
simp. ^#(落山)		落	山

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): luòshān

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄢ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lok⁶ saan¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): lo̍k-sân

(Hailu, HRS): log^ˋ san^ˋ

(Meixian, Guangdong): log⁶ san¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): lo⁷ sua¹ / lo⁷ suo¹ / lo⁷ suann¹ / ler⁷ suann¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lo̍h-soaⁿ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: luòshān
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: luòshan
  - Wade–Giles: lo⁴-shan¹
  - Yale: lwò-shān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luohshan
  - Palladius: лошань (lošanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂän⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lok⁶ saan¹
  - Yale: lohk sāan
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lok⁹ saan¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: log⁶ san¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːk̚² saːn⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lo̍k-sân
  - Hakka Romanization System: log san^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: log⁶ san¹
  - Sinological IPA: /lok̚⁵ san²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: log^ˋ san^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /lok² san⁵³/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: log⁶ san¹
  - Sinological IPA: /lɔk̚⁵ san⁴⁴/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lo⁷ sua¹ [Phonetic: lo⁵ lua¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: leo̍h-suaⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lo¹³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)lua⁵³³/
- (Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lo⁷ suo¹ [Phonetic: lo⁵ luo¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lo⁴⁵³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)luo⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lo⁷ suann¹ [Phonetic: lo⁵ nua¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lo²⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)nua⁵⁴⁴/
- (Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: lo⁷ suann¹ [Phonetic: lo⁵ nua¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lo²⁴⁻²¹ ^(θ-)nua⁵⁴⁴/
- (Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ler⁷ suann¹ [Phonetic: ler⁵ nua¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɤ²⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)nua⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍h-soaⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: lo̍h-suann
  - Phofsit Daibuun: loiqsvoaf
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lo(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ suã⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lo(ʔ)²⁴⁻² suã³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lo(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ suã⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lo(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ suã⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɤ(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ suã⁴⁴/

Verb

落山

(of the sun) to go down a mountain; to set
太陽落山了。／太阳落山了。 ― Tàiyáng luòshān le. ― The sun (∅/has/is) set.

太陽快要落山了。 [MSC, trad.]
太阳快要落山了。 [MSC, simp.]
Tàiyáng kuàiyào luòshān le. [Pinyin]
The sun is setting.
(Cantonese) to go down a mountain; to descend

Synonyms

下山 (xiàshān)

Derived terms

日頭欲落山 / 日头欲落山

References

“落山”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
“Entry #3932”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Chinese and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “2 下山（太阳～）”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 291.