落去

Chinese

		to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind	to go; to leave; to remove
trad. (落去)		落	去
simp. #(落去)		落	去

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lok⁶ heoi³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lo̍k-hi
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lo̍h--khì / lo̍h--khìr / lo̍h--khù / loeh

  (Teochew, Peng'im): loh⁸ ke³

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lok⁶ heoi³
    • Yale: lohk heui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lok⁹ hoey³
    • Guangdong Romanization: log⁶ hêu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɔːk̚² hɵy̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lo̍k-hi
    • Hakka Romanization System: log hi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: log⁶ hi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /lok̚⁵ hi⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore, Jinjiang, Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍h--khì
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍h--khì
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍h--khìr
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍h--khìr
  • (Hokkien: Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍h--khù
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍h--khù
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: loeh
    • Tâi-lô: lueh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loeq
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /lueʔ³²/

Note:

• 落 is in the citation tone and 去 is toneless when 落去 is at the end of a phrase;
• both 落 and 去 are toneless as a complement;
• both 落 and 去 undergo tone sandhi when the 落去 is not at the end of a phrase;
• loeh - contraction (often written as 落).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: loh⁸ ke³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lo̍h khṳ̀
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /loʔ⁴⁻² kʰɯ²¹³/

Verb

落去

1. (Cantonese, Southern Min) to go down
2. (Cantonese, Hakka, Southern Min) Used as a complement to a verb and placed after it:
   1. down (indicating motion to a lower or farther position)

      行落去 [Cantonese]  ―  haang⁴ lok⁶ heoi³ [Jyutping]  ―  to walk down

   2. on (to continue; to go on)

      拚落去 [Hokkien]  ―  piàⁿ--lo̍h-khì [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to strive on

      繼續做落去／继续做落去 [Cantonese]  ―  gai³ zuk⁶ zou⁶ lok⁶ heoi³ [Jyutping]  ―  to keep on doing something

   3. (Cantonese) on (figurative placement, burden, or attachment)

      畀心機落去做 [Cantonese, trad.]
      畀心机落去做 [Cantonese, simp.]

      bei² sam¹ gei¹ lok⁶ heoi³ zou⁶ [Jyutping]

      to put effort into doing something

      嘥錢落去學英文 [Cantonese, trad.]
      嘥钱落去学英文 [Cantonese, simp.]

      saai¹ cin⁴ lok⁶ heoi³ hok⁶ jing¹ man^4-2 [Jyutping]

      to waste money on learning English

3. (Hakka) to go in; to enter (towards oneself)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 下去 (“to go down”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		下去
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	下去
	Taiwan	下去
	Singapore	下去
Cantonese	Guangzhou	落去
	Hong Kong	落去
	Singapore (Guangfu)	落去
Gan	Nanchang	下去
Hakka	Meixian	落去
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	下去
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	下去
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	下去
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	落去
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	下去
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	落去
Jin	Taiyuan	下去
Southern Min	Xiamen	落去
	Quanzhou	落去
	Jinjiang	落去
	Zhangzhou	落去
	Taipei	落去
	Kaohsiung	落去
	Singapore (Hokkien)	落去
	Manila (Hokkien)	落去
	Chaozhou	落去
	Shantou	落去
	Singapore (Teochew)	落去
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	落去
Wu	Shanghai	下去
	Wenzhou	走落

Dialectal synonyms of 進去 (“to go in; to enter”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		進去
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	進去
	Taiwan	進去
	Singapore	進去
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	進去
Cantonese	Guangzhou	入去
	Hong Kong	入去
	Singapore (Guangfu)	入去
Gan	Nanchang	進去
Hakka	Meixian	入去
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	落去, 入去
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	入去
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	落去, 入去
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	入去
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	落去, 入去
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	入去
Huizhou	Jixi	進去
Jin	Taiyuan	進去
Southern Min	Xiamen	入去
	Quanzhou	入去
	Jinjiang	入去
	Zhangzhou	入去
	Taipei	入去
	Kaohsiung	入去
	Singapore (Hokkien)	入去
	Manila (Hokkien)	入去
	Chaozhou	入去
	Shantou	入去
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	入去
	Singapore (Teochew)	入去
	Singapore (Hainanese)	入去
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	入去
Wu	Wenzhou	進底

• (on (figurative placement, burden, or attachment)): 落

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #9923”, 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.