Keyword
to rein in
- to strangle
- to tighten
- Frequency
- #1142
- Strokes
- 11
Readings
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Mnemonic
力 (strength) gives the meaning and 革 the sound.
Stroke order
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Used in vocabulary
勒
(literary) bridle; halter; headstall; to rein in; to compel; to force; (literary) to carve; to engrave; (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc); (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯 (lèkèsī))
希特勒
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
巴勒斯坦
Palestine
泰勒
Taylor (name)
加勒比
Caribbean
加勒比海
Caribbean Sea
勒索
to blackmail; to extort
勾勒
to draw the outline of; to outline; to sketch; to delineate contours of; to give a brief account of
勒令
to order; to force
马勒
Mahler (name); Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Austrian composer
列宁格勒
Leningrad, former name (1923–1991) of Russian city Saint Petersburg 圣彼得堡 (Shèngbǐdébǎo)
那不勒斯
Napoli, capital of Campania region of Italy; Naples
洛克菲勒
Rockefeller
弥勒
Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
斯大林格勒
Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)
格勒
(onom.) laughing sound; glug-glug haha!
托勒密
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC; Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文学大成
勒死
to strangle
席勒
Schiller (name); Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
俄勒冈州
Oregon
克莱斯勒
Chrysler (car manufacturer)
敲诈勒索
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
费德勒
Roger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
布加勒斯特
Bucharest, capital of Romania