nidan verb (upper class) with 'tsu' ending (archaic), intransitive verb
Archaic intransitive verb, equivalent to modern 落ちる. Used in classical Japanese texts. The kanji 落つ is the most general; 墜つ suggests falling from a height or crashing; 堕つ implies a moral or spiritual fall.
See also: 落ちる
The petals fall to the ground.
In classical Japanese, 落つ is read as おつ and corresponds to modern 落ちる.
Archaic kanji spelling for the classical verb おつ. The modern equivalent is 落ちる.
Archaic variant kanji, used in contexts of falling from a height or crashing.
Archaic variant kanji, used in contexts of moral or spiritual decline.
The classical upper-bigrade verb 落つ had the stem 落ち-. Modern 落ちる continues this stem in the later regularized ichidan form.