How to say "landing" in Japanese

• 着陸ちゃくりくJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbLanding in the sense of touching down: the word for what an aircraft does when a flight ends. It is the counterpart of taking off.
  その飛行機ひこうきは申し分もうしぶんのない着陸ちゃくりくをした。↗

  The plane made a perfect landing.
• 着地ちゃくちCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbLanding on the ground: the moment of touching down after a jump or a fall. The focus is on the touchdown itself rather than the movement before it.
  パイロットは完璧かんぺきな着地ちゃくちをした。↗

  The pilot made a perfect three-point landing.
• 上陸じょうりくJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbLanding in the sense of going ashore: people disembarking from a ship or boat onto land. It is about coming ashore from the water, not about aircraft touching down.
• ランディングCommon
  nounThe loanword, borrowed directly from English 'landing'. It overlaps with 着陸 in the touch-down sense; when you simply mean that a plane landed, 着陸 is the word to reach for.
• 水揚げみずあげCommon
  noun, suru verbLanding in the fishing and shipping sense: a catch of fish brought ashore, or cargo unloaded from a ship. It is goods that are landed here, not aircraft or people.

Choose by what is landing: 着陸 for an aircraft touching down, 着地 for the touchdown after a jump or fall, 上陸 for going ashore, 「ランディング」 as the loanword overlapping 着陸, and 「水揚げ」 for fish or cargo landed.

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• 着陸ちゃくりくlanding
• 着地ちゃくちlanding (on the ground)
• 上陸じょうりくlanding
• ランディングlanding
• 水揚げみずあげlanding
• 中段ちゅうだんhalf-way up a slope or stairway
• 着弾ちゃくだんimpact (of a projectile)
• 荷揚げにあげunloading
• 陸揚げりくあげunloading (a ship)
• 降着こうちゃくlanding
• 上がり場あがりばlanding place (of a boat or ship)
• フィニッシュlanding (in gymnastics)
• 接地せっちtouching the ground
• 踊り場おどりばlanding (of a staircase)
• 着氷ちゃくひょうlanding (a jump in ice skating)
• 揚陸ようりくlanding
• お見舞いおみまいdealing (a hit)