Keyword
to pull
- to drag
- to seize
- to hold
- to lengthen
- to play (a violin)
- Frequency
- #372
- Strokes
- 8
Readings
lā100%
Mnemonic
扌 (hand) gives the meaning and 立 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
拉
to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels
伊拉克
Iraq
阿拉伯
Arabian; Arabic; Arab
卡拉
karaoke; (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried
南斯拉夫
Yugoslavia (former country that existed in various forms from 1918 to 2003)
阿拉
Allah (Arabic name of God)
克拉
carat (mass) (loanword)
拉美
Latin America; abbr. for 拉丁美洲
委内瑞拉
Venezuela
格拉
Gera (city in Germany)
拉丁
Latin; (in former times) to press-gang; to kidnap and force people into service
拉拉
Lala, Philippines
孟加拉
Bengal; Bangladesh
乌拉圭
Uruguay
贝拉
Beira, Mozambique
马拉松
(loanword) marathon
拉开
to pull open; to pull apart; to space out; to increase
克拉克
(name) Clark or Clarke
阿拉伯人
Arab; Arabian; Arabian people
普拉
Pula (city in Croatia)
沙特阿拉伯
Saudi Arabia
拉动
to pull; (fig.) to stimulate (economic activity); to motivate (people to do sth)
拉丁美洲
Latin America
斯拉夫
Slavic