散る
ちる · chiru · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to fall
🌸🍂 chiru sounds like cherry: cherry blossoms chiru, they scatter and fall
散 means scatter, as in 散歩 (sanpo, a stroll that scatters your steps around). The classic use is 桜が散る, the cherry blossoms fall. Cherry and chiru even start with the same ch sound.
散 — 月 (meat) + 攵 (action) + 卄 (hemp fibers)
Originally depicted beating hemp fibers apart with a stick, with 月 (meat/flesh) added later. The core image of separating or scattering things gave rise to meanings like 'scatter,' 'disperse,' and 'loose/leisurely.' The 攵 component signals an action done by hand.