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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
(marketing) to acquire new users; to bring in new customers
to bring (people) closer together
to pull open / to pull apart / to space out / to increase
HSK 4
to pull / to injure by straining
(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
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
to draw / to stretch
to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
to rope in / fig. to involve sb / to entice
HSK 7-9
to campaign for votes / to ask voters for support
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
to talk or chat about ordinary daily life
Latin (language)
the alphabet / latin letters
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
Latin alphabet
to assume a fighting stance / (fig.) to take the offensive
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
(fig.) to raise the curtain / to lift the curtain / to be a curtain raiser for
to pull into / to draw in
(computing) client pull
Ramadan (loanword)
pulling force / (fig.) allure / (materials testing) tensile strength / (loanword) rally
Lala, Philippines
lesbian (Internet slang) / Labrador retriever
to make ceramics (on a potter's wheel)
(coll.) to have diarrhea
pulled noodles / ramen
to max out; (of a feeling, atmosphere etc) to reach peak intensity
Latin (language)
Lagrange (name) / Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist
rolling suitcase
Ralph (name)
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name) / Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian composer and pianist
Latin square (math. puzzle)
Latin America
drawing (manufacturing process in which hot metal or glass is stretched)
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)
lactitol, a sugar alcohol
tension bar
to lengthen / to pull sth out longer
Lagos (Nigerian city)
to bring to the same level / to even up / to flare out / to flatten out
romanization
trombone
to seek contact with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
Loughborough, English city
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia
cheerleading squad / also written 啦啦隊|啦啦队
Lafayette
Lapland (northern Europe)
Rugby (game) / Rugby school in England
Lafargue (name) / Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx
Latvia
a two-man saw / fig. to-and-fro between two sides
to tout / to solicit customers
to pull up
to force into service / press-gang
zipper
Latin dance
Rania (name)
to hold hands / to shake hands
a handle / to pull on a handle
Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)
Raphael
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
resealable bag; ziplock bag / bag with a zipper
Ravenclaw (Harry Potter)
raffia (loanword)
Rabaul, port city and capital of New Britain, island of northeast Papua New Guinea
rad (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of modern chemistry
Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of
to solicit (guests, clients, passengers etc) / to importune
to start a clique / to form a faction
trendy; eye-catching; flashy
to defecate; to shit; to crap
(loanword) rabbi
to-and-fro tussle / closely-fought contest
Rodan (Japanese ラドン Radon), Japanese movie monster
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
L'Aquila, Italy
La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺
Rameses (name of pharaoh)
to poop / to defecate
(of beard etc) stubbly / scraggly / unkempt
Lhasa, prefecture-level city and capital of Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区
(dialect) to chat
chest expander (exercise equipment)
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
(Hong Kong) to filibuster

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