啦 (lā)
sentence-final particle indicating a change of state or exclamation (fusion of 了 and 啊)
How 啦 is written
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Traditional
- 啦
- Simplified
- 啦 (unchanged)
Components
- 口 mouth
- 扌 hand
- 立 stand erect
啦 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- lā
- (onomat.); (phonetic)
- la
- sentence-final particle, contraction of 了啊, indicating exclamation; particle placed after each item in a list of examples
Common words using 啦
- 劈裡啪啦 pīlipāla
- variant of 批哩啪啦[pi1 li5 pa1 la5]
- 呼啦啦 hūlālā
- flapping sound
- 呼啦圈 hūlāquān
- hula hoop
- 哩哩啦啦 līlīlālā
- scattered; intermittent; sporadic
- 啦啦隊 lālāduì
- support team; cheering squad; cheerleader
- 嘎啦 gāla
- rumbling; rattling (onomatopoeia)
- 嘩啦 huālā
- onomat. sound of a crash; with a crash
- 嘩啦啦 huālālā
- crashing sound (onomatopoeia)
- 稀裡嘩啦 xīlihuālā
- rustling sound (onomatopoeia); sound of rain or of sth falling down; in disorder
啦 in a sentence
我要遲到啦！
Wǒ yào chídào la!
“I'm going to be late!”
How common is 啦?
啦 is the 1,192nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 91.8% of all running text.
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