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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
to pull open / to pull apart / to space out / to increase
HSK 4
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
zipper
HSK 7-9
to rope in / fig. to involve sb / to entice
HSK 7-9
(slang) to take ketamine
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
Lala, Philippines
lesbian (Internet slang) / Labrador retriever
Latin America / abbr. for 拉丁美洲
Latvia
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of
to draw / to stretch
pulling force / (fig.) allure / (materials testing) tensile strength / (loanword) rally
tension bar
zipper
to lengthen / to pull sth out longer
to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
Las Vegas, Nevada
(coll.) to have diarrhea / to shrink back / to cower
pulled noodles / ramen
to hold hands / to shake hands
a handle / to pull on a handle
(military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc) / (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
Ralph (name)
Lazio (region in Italy)
to defecate; to shit; to crap
Lagrange (name) / Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
Las Palmas, Spain
chest expander (exercise equipment)
to solicit (guests, clients, passengers etc) / to importune
a two-man saw / fig. to-and-fro between two sides
Raphael
trombone
pinky swear
to campaign for votes / to ask voters for support
Lhazê county, Tibetan: Lha rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Larnaca (city in Cyprus) / Larnaka
to try to stop a fight / to intervene in a fight
Lagos (Nigerian city)
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
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
Rameses (name of pharaoh)
to look displeased / to not be afraid of hurting sb's feelings / to put aside one's pride
Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS / brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV
(of beard etc) stubbly / scraggly / unkempt
(dialect) to chat
to bear the burden of a household (idiom); encumbered by a family / tied down by family obligations
to start a clique / to form a faction
Mt Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota
disorganized / rambling / incoherent
Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province in south Afghanistan
Latin (language)
rad (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
to force into service / press-gang
(Philippine President Fidel) Ramos
(Hong Kong) to filibuster
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)
(coll.) to have diarrhea
to pull tight / tensioning
to bring to the same level / to even up / to flare out / to flatten out
Latin (language)
Latin dance
to have a facelift / facelift
(name) Larson, Larsen, Larsson or Lassen etc
to talk or chat about ordinary daily life
Laval (name)
to add sb to one's blacklist (on a cellphone, or in instant messaging software etc) / abbr. for 拉到黑名單|拉到黑名单
teh tarik, an Indian-style tea with milk
Lafayette
Lhasa, prefecture-level city and capital of Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区
to max out; (of a feeling, atmosphere etc) to reach peak intensity
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
Rabat, capital of Morocco
Labrador, Canada / Labrador (a breed of dog)
Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist
(computing) client pull
tensile strength
Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)
Latin alphabet
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
stretching (exercise)
Lafargue (name) / Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx
trendy; eye-catching; flashy
La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺
Rajasthan (state in India)
to-and-fro tussle / closely-fought contest
Razumovsky (name) / Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (1752-1836), Russian diplomat
raffia (loanword)
Ravenclaw (Harry Potter)
pull tab (on a drink can) / strap handle (on a bus or train) / ring-shaped door handle
rolling suitcase
to tout / to solicit customers
to make ceramics (on a potter's wheel)
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, usually written as 拉巴斯
rabbi (loanword)

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