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HSK
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 rope in / fig. to involve sb / to entice
HSK 7-9
zipper
HSK 7-9
pull-top can / easy-open can (with ring-pull)
HSK 7-9
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
Douglas (name)
to pull up
Latvia
Gera (city in Germany)
Sahara
deadlift
(name) Clark or Clarke
capoeira (loanword)
Sierra Leone
(slang) to take ketamine
Iraq
karaoke (loanword)
Platonism
Karachi (Pakistan)
chest expander (exercise equipment)
Hera (wife of Zeus)
Honduras
Dalad banner in Ordos 鄂爾多斯|鄂尔多斯, Inner Mongolia
Uruguay
Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti)
Venezuela
Caracas, capital of Venezuela
sparse and fragmentary
to try to stop a fight / to intervene in a fight
Labrador, Canada / Labrador (a breed of dog)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
trust (commerce) (loanword)
Malawi
Arab / Arabian / Arabian people
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Alaska, US state
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Hillary (name) / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
Málaga, Spain / Malaga city in Iranian East Azerbaijan
to campaign for votes / to ask voters for support
Anguilla
United Arab Emirates (Tw)
Rabat, capital of Morocco
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928-1967), Cuban Revolution leader
Arabian / Arabic / Arab
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
Latin (language)
Allah (Arabic name of God)
(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serbian inventor and engineer / Tesla, an American electric vehicle and clean energy company
tesla (unit)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the thirty-fifth president of Brazil / Lula
pulled noodles / ramen
Pula (city in Croatia)
(Tw) Guatemala
(loanword) salad
Lala, Philippines
lesbian (Internet slang) / Labrador retriever
Raphael
(loanword) marathon
Beira, Mozambique
Vala (Middle-earth)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of
Pilates (physical fitness system)
to chat idly (Tw)
Stratford (place name) / Stratford-upon-Avon, UK city in Warwickshire and birthplace of William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥 / Cara, Karla etc (name)
karaoke / (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher
to lengthen / to pull sth out longer
Bengal / Bangladesh
pulling force / (fig.) allure / (materials testing) tensile strength / (loanword) rally
Oklahoma City
Saudi Arabia (Tw)
Cassandra (given name) / Cassandra (character in Greek mythology)
Canberra, capital of Australia
Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Paraguay
farad, SI unit of electrical capacitance (loanword)
a Pandora's box
Tirana, capital of Albania
Loughborough University
to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
Himalayas
Tel Aviv / Tel Aviv-Jaffa
zipper
Latin (language)
to force into service / press-gang
Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
Malawi (Tw)
the Himalayas
to hold hands / to shake hands
a handle / to pull on a handle
Angola
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Prague, capital of Czech Republic
carat (mass) (loanword)

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