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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
to rope in / fig. to involve sb / to entice
HSK 7-9
zipper
HSK 7-9
to pull / (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity) / to motivate (people to do sth)
HSK 7-9
to pull up
Latvia
(slang) to take ketamine
chest expander (exercise equipment)
Labrador, Canada / Labrador (a breed of dog)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
to campaign for votes / to ask voters for support
Rabat, capital of Morocco
Latin (language)
pulled noodles / ramen
Lala, Philippines
lesbian (Internet slang) / Labrador retriever
Raphael
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of
to lengthen / to pull sth out longer
pulling force / (fig.) allure / (materials testing) tensile strength / (loanword) rally
to drag / to pull / to raise a child (through difficulties) / to help / to support / to drag in / to chat
zipper
Latin (language)
to force into service / press-gang
to hold hands / to shake hands
a handle / to pull on a handle
(coll.) to have diarrhea
to pull tight / tensioning
lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)
to have a facelift / facelift
(Hong Kong) to filibuster
(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go / to pull down
Lhalu, Tibetan name and place name / Lhalu Tsewang Dorje (1915-2011), Tibetan pro-Chinese politician / Lhalu suburb of Lhasa
trendy; eye-catching; flashy
a two-man saw / fig. to-and-fro between two sides
rad (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword)
Ralph (name)
(military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc) / (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas
cheerleading squad / also written 啦啦隊|啦啦队
Lahore (city in Pakistan)
Las Palmas, Spain
Rugby (game) / Rugby school in England
to look displeased / to not be afraid of hurting sb's feelings / to put aside one's pride
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia
(name) Larson, Larsen, Larsson or Lassen etc
Latin alphabet
disorganized / rambling / incoherent
to talk or chat about ordinary daily life
to procure / to act as pimp
Lavrov (name) / Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov (1950-), Russian diplomat and politician, Foreign minister from 2004
Rasmussen (name)
Lazio (region in Italy)
Ravenna on the Adriatic coast of Italy
Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist
Lahu ethnic group of Yunnan
(Philippine President Fidel) Ramos
to bring to the same level / to even up / to flare out / to flatten out
to seek contact with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
Lafayette
Ramadan (loanword)
Latin America / abbr. for 拉丁美洲
Rachmaninoff or Rachmaninov (name) / Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Russian composer and pianist
Laguerre (name) / Edmond Laguerre (1834-1886), French mathematician
(dialect) to chat
to try to form friendly ties with sb for one's own benefit / to suck up to sb
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, usually written as 拉巴斯
Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac
(Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom) / fig. to borrow sb's prestige / to take the name of a great cause as a shield
to bear the burden of a household (idiom); encumbered by a family / tied down by family obligations
to try to stop a fight / to intervene in a fight
Lhasa, prefecture-level city and capital of Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区
to pull a long face / to scowl
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
to start a clique / to form a faction
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Lagos (Nigerian city)
Lafargue (name) / Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), French socialist and revolutionary activist, son-in-law of Karl Marx
tension bar
to solicit (guests, clients, passengers etc) / to importune
erroneous variant of 垃圾
Lhazê county, Tibetan: Lha rtse rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
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
Prince Norodom Ranariddh (1944-), Cambodian politician and son of former King Sihanouk of Cambodia
(coll.) to have diarrhea / to shrink back / to cower
Ratzinger (German surname of Pope Benedict XVI)
to draw / to stretch
(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
Lagrange (name) / Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist
Lacan (psychoanalyst)
Las Vegas, Nevada
trombone
Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service
to defecate; to shit; to crap
Ladakh, the eastern part of Jammu and Kashmir in northwest India, adjacent to Kashmir and Tibet, know as "Little Tibet"
rally (car race) (loanword)
Latin dance
(of beard etc) stubbly / scraggly / unkempt
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)

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