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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
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
Mönchengladbach (city in Germany)
Asia, Africa and Latin America
to bring (people) closer together
to pull open / to pull apart / to space out / to increase
HSK 4
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
to pull / to injure by straining
Vladivostok (Russian port city) (Chinese name: 海參崴|海参崴)
Arakan Mountains (aka Rakhine Mountains), mountain range in western Myanmar
Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea
(of a performer) to put on a show at an outdoor venue (temple fair, marketplace etc) / (fig.) to enhance sb's reputation / to make a name for oneself
(dialect) to chat / to gossip
zipper
HSK 7-9
Arabian Sea
one who does not fear the death of thousand cuts will dare to unhorse the emperor (proverb) / to a fearless person, no fence is high enough
Alxa Right Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Baruun khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
Ferrari, Italian luxury sports car manufacturer
Drammen (city in Buskerud, Norway)
leather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 烏拉草|乌拉草, worn in northeastern China during winter
French dressing / vinaigrette
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
Pandora
karaoke (loanword)
Godzilla
cart
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
Potala, winter palace of Dalai Lamas in Lhasa, Tibet
Iraq
Dalad banner in Ordos 鄂爾多斯|鄂尔多斯, Inner Mongolia
pull-top can / easy-open can (with ring-pull)
HSK 7-9
to draw / to stretch
to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
a Pandora's box
Sarah Brightman (1960-), English pop star
to rope in / fig. to involve sb / to entice
HSK 7-9
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
(loanword) koala
Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu Autonomous County in Pu'er 普洱市, Yunnan
Cadillac
carat (mass) (loanword)
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)
lit. to occupy a latrine but not shit (proverb) / fig. to be a dog in the manger
Nyalam county, Tibetan: Gnya' lam rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Arab / Arabian / Arabian people
Himalayas
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
Canberra, capital of Australia
to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently
Maserati
Alabama, US state
Latin (language)
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
Urat Front banner or Urdyn Ömnöd khoshuu in Bayan Nur 巴彥淖爾|巴彦淖尔, Inner Mongolia
Latin alphabet
to assume a fighting stance / (fig.) to take the offensive
the Himalayas
the Grand Canyon (Colorado)
Pandora
Latin America / abbr. for 拉丁美洲
Van de Graaff generator
Niagara Falls
Bengal / Bangladesh
to try to form friendly ties with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
Motorola
Sahara
West Bengal
marathon race
(fig.) to raise the curtain / to lift the curtain / to be a curtain raiser for
to pull into / to draw in
(name) Ibrahim or Ebrahim / Ibrahim, a revered prophet in Islam, known as Abraham in the Judeo-Christian tradition
Pilates (physical fitness system)
Ebola (virus)
(computing) client pull
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
sriracha (loanword)
to droop; to hang down; to dangle
tiramisu (loanword)
Alabama, US state
(name) Abraham / Abraham, Biblical patriarch regarded as the founder of monotheism
(old) Arabia
Karamay, prefecture-level city in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
sliding door
Ramadan (loanword)
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Oklahoma, US state

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