洛

Meaning

洛 centers on the historical Chinese capital Luoyang and, by extension, the Japanese capital Kyoto. It is a place name that carries the idea of a grand capital city.

• 洛らく

  the capital (esp. Kyoto)

• 上洛じょうらく

  going to Kyoto; visiting Kyoto

• 洛中らくちゅう

  inside the capital

• 洛外らくがい

  outside Kyoto or the capital

• 京洛きょうらく

  capital (esp. Kyoto)

• 入洛じゅらく

  proceeding to Kyoto; entering Kyoto

• 参洛さんらく

  going to the capital

• 帰洛きらく

  returning to a capital city (esp. Kyoto)

• 洛中尽くしらくちゅうづくし

  comprehensive list of famous places in Kyoto accompanied with pictures and text

• 洛中払いらくちゅうばらい

  exile from Kyoto (Edo-period punishment)

• 洛中洛外らくちゅうらくがい

  in and around the city of Kyoto

• 洛中洛外図らくちゅうらくがいず

  views in and around Kyoto (style of folding screen depicting the scenery and scenes of everyday life in Kyoto; late Muromachi period to the Edo period)

• 洛内らくない

  in Kyoto or the capital

• 洛北らくほく

  north of the capital

• 洛南らくなん

  south of the capital

• 洛叉らくしゃ

  lakh; 100,000 (Indian numbering system)

• 洛学らくがく

  Luo Xue school (neo-Confucianist school)

• 洛西らくせい

  western Kyoto

• 洛陽の紙価を高めるらくようのしかをたかめる

  to be favorably received and sell extremely well (of a book); to raise the price of paper in Luoyang

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