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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
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  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
Asia, Africa and Latin America
leather shoe stuffed with Carex meyeriana 烏拉草|乌拉草, worn in northeastern China during winter
Pandora
Godzilla
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
carat (mass) (loanword)
Godzilla (Tw)
Canberra, capital of Australia
Pandora
Bengal / Bangladesh
Motorola
Sahara
Ebola (virus)
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
to droop; to hang down; to dangle
(onom.) / same as 噶喇
Mothra (Japanese モスラ Mosura), Japanese movie monster
(loanword) salad
Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia) / Amharic / Ethiopian
Lala, Philippines
lesbian (Internet slang) / Labrador retriever
(loanword) salad
Dangla or Tanggula mountain range on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau 青藏高原
Godzilla (Japanese ゴジラ Gojira) / see also 哥斯拉
Asmara, capital of Eritrea
Angola
Dracula, novel by Bram Stoker / Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1476), nicknamed Vlad the Impaler or Dracula
(loanword) gondola (Venetian boat)
Marat (name) / Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), Swiss scientist and physician
Ankara, capital of Turkey
to procrastinate
(coll.) to push lightly / to flick to one side / to get rid of
(coll.) to push food from one's bowl into one's mouth with chopsticks (usu. hurriedly)
(loanword) lira (currency of Turkey)
Ebola (virus)
Tambora, volcano on Indonesian island of Sumbawa 松巴哇, whose 1815 eruption is greatest in recorded history
Zola (name) / Émile Zola (1840-1902), French naturalist novelist
Bayankala mountain range in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, watershed of 黃河|黄河 Huang He river
Sandra (name)
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), Serbian inventor and engineer / Tesla, an American electric vehicle and clean energy company
tesla (unit)
Hera (wife of Zeus)
to wear (one's shoes) like babouche slippers / (onom.) shuffling sound
(loanword) chakra
New Latin
candela (unit of luminosity) / standard candle
Kampala, capital of Uganda
Allah (Arabic name of God)
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), Swiss mathematician
Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti)
Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel
Karbala (city in Iraq)
to sweep / to brush away
(Tw) (loanword) camera
Gamera (Japanese ガメラ Gamera), Japanese movie monster
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African ANC politician, president of South Africa 1994-1999
(loanword) cholera
Accra, capital of Ghana
Manila, capital of Philippines
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of
Puebla, a city southeast of Mexico City / term used to refer to plants whose specific epithet is pueblensis, such as Tillandsia pueblensis (an air plant) and Echeveria pueblensis (a succulent)
Syrah (grape type)
Tora Bora, cave complex in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan
guava (loanword from Taiwanese)
Zipporah, wife of Moses
Adderall (stimulant drug)
Kara, city in northern Togo 多哥 / Cara, Karla etc (name)
karaoke / (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
Barbara or Barbra (name)
Dombra or Tambura, Kazakh plucked lute
Kevlar
L'Aquila, Italy
para para, a Eurobeat dance originating in Japan, with synchronized upper body movements (loanword from Japanese)
(dialect) shrike / Taiwan pr. [hu3 bu5 la1]
Hispaniola (Caribbean island including Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
(Protestantism) Delilah
Kevlar
Bujumbura, capital of Burundi
Attila (406-453), Hun emperor, known as the scourge of God
Kevlar
vuvuzela (horn) (loanword)
Maulana Fazlullah, Pakistan Taleban leader
(loanword) masala
Avila, Spain
Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands
(loanword) mozzarella
Allah (Arabic name of God)
(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our
Anthony and Cleopatra, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
(Tw) Guatemala
Guadalajara
Basra (city in Iraq)
Kendra (name)
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967), Cuban Revolution leader
Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era

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