Illustration: In a Japanese residential courtyard, petals fall from a flowering cherry branch above a parked bicycle. Some flowers remain intact, while others have visibly lost petals, and several loose petals drift at different heights between branch and ground.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

散ちる

chiru

to fall (of blossoms or leaves)

Example sentences

  1. あなたが帰国きこくなさる頃ころには、桜さくらはみんな散ちってしまっていることでしょう。

    By the time you get home, all the cherry blossoms will have fallen.

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  2. 秋あきには葉はが散ちる。

    The leaves fall in autumn.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. ほとんどの葉はが散ちってしまった。

    Almost all the leaves have fallen.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 散

  • 散scatter; disperseOnサンKunちる・ちらす・ちらかす

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