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  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
Latin (language)
rally (car race) (loanword)
Trafalgar Square (London)
Vladivostok (Russian port city) (Chinese name: 海參崴|海参崴)
to pull open / to pull apart / to space out / to increase
HSK 4
(dialect) to chat / to gossip
Cantonese sponge cake also known as mara cake
Arabian Sea
Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
Alxa Right Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Baruun khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
Ferrari, Italian luxury sports car manufacturer
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat 亞西爾·阿拉法特|亚西尔·阿拉法特
Himalayas
Cadillac
Pandora
Manila, capital of Philippines
karaoke (loanword)
to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently
Colorado
Godzilla
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
the Himalayas
Maserati
Iraq
to rope in / fig. to involve sb / to entice
HSK 7-9
(loanword) belachan (South-East Asian condiment made from fermented shrimp paste)
pull-top can / easy-open can (with ring-pull)
HSK 7-9
to draw / to stretch
Cleopatra (c. 70–30 BC), queen of Egypt
to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
a Pandora's box
the Grand Canyon (Colorado)
Asia, Africa and Latin America
Plato (c. 427 – c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher
Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang
Taiwan equivalent of 希拉里
to campaign for votes / to ask voters for support
to drag along / to haul / (fig.) to procrastinate / shilly-shallying / sluggish / (computing) drag and drop / (loanword) tola, unit of weight, approx. 11.664 grams
cart
(fig.) to raise the curtain / to lift the curtain / to be a curtain raiser for
(loanword) koala
carat (mass) (loanword)
to seek contact with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
Godzilla (Tw)
to join hands / hand in hand
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
Saudi Arabia
to talk or chat about ordinary daily life
Sharapova (Russian female tennis star)
Arab / Arabian / Arabian people
to make a pinky promise
zipper
HSK 7-9
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
(military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc) / (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas
Shealtiel (son of Jeconiah)
Canberra, capital of Australia
salad dressing
zipper
Alabama, US state
Karamay District of Karamay City 克拉瑪依市|克拉玛依市, Xinjiang
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
antitrust (loanword)
Dangla or Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
the alphabet / latin letters
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Aurora, Roman goddess of dawn
Kevlar
Latin alphabet
Pandora
Oklahoma, US state (Tw)
Latin America / abbr. for 拉丁美洲
leather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 烏拉草|乌拉草, worn in northeastern China during winter
Bengal / Bangladesh
to try to form friendly ties with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
rolling suitcase
tractor / CL: 臺|台
Sahara
West Bengal
Marrakech (city in Morocco)
carageenan (chemistry)
Bangladesh
to pull into / to draw in
(name) Ibrahim or Ebrahim / Ibrahim, a revered prophet in Islam, known as Abraham in the Judeo-Christian tradition
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician
Uruguay
to max out; (of a feeling, atmosphere etc) to reach peak intensity
to pull a long face / to scowl
Pilates (physical fitness system)
Ebola (virus)
(computing) client pull
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
sriracha (loanword)
Pythagoras

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