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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels
HSK 2
to pull open / to pull apart / to space out / to increase
HSK 4
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
pull-top can / easy-open can (with ring-pull)
HSK 7-9
zipper
HSK 7-9
to rope in / fig. to involve sb / to entice
HSK 7-9
Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia) / Amharic / Ethiopian
romanization
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
Arabian / Arabic / Arab
Sierra Leone
see 孜然, cumin
Wushitala Hui village in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Saudi Arabia
(loanword) a cappella
Lala, Philippines
lesbian (Internet slang) / Labrador retriever
to pull into / to draw in
Latin America / abbr. for 拉丁美洲
Latvia
Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of
Barbara or Barbra (name)
Prague, capital of Czech Republic
Sea of Marmara
tension bar
(loanword) tolar, currency of Slovenia 1991-2007 / tolar, silver coin that served as the main currency of Bohemia 1520-1750
Nebraska, US state
Zaragoza, Spain
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
die (i.e. tool for cutting wire to a given diameter)
to draw / to stretch
Alaska, US state
Iraq
Ankara, capital of Turkey
Venezuela
(loanword) marathon
carat (mass) (loanword)
Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) virus
Angola
pulling force / (fig.) allure / (materials testing) tensile strength / (loanword) rally
Paramaribo, capital of Suriname
Caracas, capital of Venezuela
to defecate (slang)
Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
Douglas (name)
Las Palmas, Spain
Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
sub-Saharan Africa
Alabama, US state
Honduras (Tw)
zipper
West Bengal
to lengthen / to pull sth out longer
Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher / José Sócrates (1957-), prime minister of Portugal (2005-2011)
Herat province of Afghanistan
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 陀思妥耶夫斯基
Godzilla
P.A.M. Dirac (1902-1984), British physicist
Plato (c. 427 – c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher
(name) Clark or Clarke
Sera monastery near Lhasa, Tibet
Zola (name) / Émile Zola (1840-1902), French naturalist novelist
Glasgow, Scotland
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Sierra de Guadarrama (mountain range across Iberia, passing north of Madrid)
Cadillac
riviera (loanword)
the Himalayas
lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)
the Ural mountains in Russia, dividing Europe from Asia
leather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 烏拉草|乌拉草, worn in northeastern China during winter
Uruguay
to drag along / to haul / (fig.) to procrastinate / shilly-shallying / sluggish / (computing) drag and drop / (loanword) tola, unit of weight, approx. 11.664 grams
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967), Cuban Revolution leader
University of Manila
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
Las Vegas, Nevada
(coll.) to have diarrhea / to shrink back / to cower
pulled noodles / ramen
Hippocrates (c. 460 BC - c. 370 BC), Greek physician, father of Western medicine
to hold hands / to shake hands
a handle / to pull on a handle
Allah (Arabic name of God)
(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our
Paraguay
(military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc) / (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas
Basra (city in Iraq)
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
Ralph (name)
Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原
Sandra (name)
Lazio (region in Italy)
to defecate; to shit; to crap

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