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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)
(dialect) to chat / to gossip
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
to draw / to stretch
to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
to campaign for votes / to ask voters for support
(fig.) to raise the curtain / to lift the curtain / to be a curtain raiser for
to seek contact with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
to talk or chat about ordinary daily life
pinky swear
(military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc) / (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
zipper
the alphabet / latin letters
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Latin alphabet
Latin America / abbr. for 拉丁美洲
to try to form friendly ties with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
rolling suitcase
to pull into / to draw in
to max out; (of a feeling, atmosphere etc) to reach peak intensity
to pull a long face / to scowl
(computing) client pull
pulling force / (fig.) allure / (materials testing) tensile strength / (loanword) rally
(dialect) to chat
resealable bag; ziplock bag / bag with a zipper
disorganized / rambling / incoherent
Lala, Philippines
lesbian (Internet slang) / Labrador retriever
cheerleading squad / also written 啦啦隊|啦啦队
to look displeased / to not be afraid of hurting sb's feelings / to put aside one's pride
to bear the burden of a household (idiom); encumbered by a family / tied down by family obligations
to make ceramics (on a potter's wheel)
to hold hands
to pull tight / tensioning
(coll.) to have diarrhea
Latin (language)
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
to rope in / fig. to involve sb / to entice
HSK 7-9
pull tab (on a drink can) / strap handle (on a bus or train) / ring-shaped door handle
to procure / to act as pimp
Lagrange (name) / Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist
Rajasthan (state in India)
Ladakh, Indian-administered region in the Himalayas
a two-man saw / fig. to-and-fro between two sides
trendy; eye-catching; flashy
Latin America
to pull sb close to oneself / (fig.) (typically followed by 距離|距离) to bridge (the distance between people) (i.e. to build a closer relationship)
pulled noodles / ramen
lactitol, a sugar alcohol
tension bar
Lagos (Nigerian city)
Raphael
to bring to the same level / to even up / to flare out / to flatten out
Lapland (northern Europe)
romanization
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
trombone
Loughborough, English city
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia
Lafayette
Rugby (game) / Rugby school in England
Lafargue (name) / Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx
Ralph (name)
to-and-fro tussle / closely-fought contest
to pull / to injure by straining
Ravenclaw (Harry Potter)
to tout / to solicit customers
to pull up
to force into service / press-gang
Latin dance
to defecate (slang)
to hold hands / to shake hands
a handle / to pull on a handle
Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)
drawing (manufacturing process in which hot metal or glass is stretched)
to bring (people) closer together
zipper
HSK 7-9
to assume a fighting stance / (fig.) to take the offensive
Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name / Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-2011), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician / Lhalu suburb of Lhasa
Lazarus (Catholic transliteration)
(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
Rania (name)
to tug at / to pull at sb aggressively / to take sb's hand or arm in a too familiar way / (derog.) to hobnob / to consort
Lazio (region in Italy)
raffia (loanword)
Ramadan (loanword)
rad (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of
tensile strength
to solicit (guests, clients, passengers etc) / to importune
Las Vegas, Nevada
to defecate; to shit; to crap

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