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散る
ちる
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
to fall, to scatter (e.g., blossoms)
Chiru, “to scatter”, appears in the Kojiki, completed 712 CE.
Taken apart
No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.
Written with 散
In a sentence
秋には葉が散る。
The leaves fall in autumn.
ほとんどの葉が散ってしまった。
Almost all the leaves have fallen.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From Old Japanese. Appears in the Kojiki, completed 712 CE.”
Source: Wiktionary: 散る (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
Other readings of 散る on the same Wiktionary page
These describe other words written the same way, not ちる. They are quoted for context: the parts, layer and processes of this word are not taken from them.
ある
- “From Old Japanese. Appears in the Kojiki, completed 712 CE. Currently obsolete.”
- “Cognate with 荒い (arai, “rough, harsh”), 荒れる (areru, “to become wild, rough, unkempt, dilapidated; to be violent, crazy, wild, disordered”).”
あかる
- “From Old Japanese. Appears in the Kagerō Nikki, dated 974 CE. Currently obsolete.”
- “Plural counterpart to 分かる (wakaru, “one thing separates from another”), implying more a sense of scatter (as of many things). Intransitive counterpart to 散つ (akatsu, “to separate or scatter multiple things”), itself the plural counterpart to 分かつ (wakatsu, “to separate one thing from another”). Compare underlying root verbs aku (明く, 開く, 空く: "to open, to spread, to empty") and waku (分く, 別く: "to split, to divide").”
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.