拉 (lā)
to pull; to play (string instrument)
How 拉 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Traditional
- 拉
- Simplified
- 拉 (unchanged)
Components
- 扌 hand
- 立 stand erect
Common words using 拉
- 拉手 lāshǒu
- to hold hands; to shake hands
- 拉肚子 lādùzi
- diarrhea
- 伊拉克 yīlākè
- Iraq
- 克拉 kèlā
- carat (mass)
- 克拉瑪依 kèlāmǎyī
- Qaramay shehiri (Karamay city) or Kèlāmǎyī prefecture level city in Xinjiang
- 凱迪拉克 kǎidílākè
- Cadillac
- 南斯拉夫 nánsīlāfū
- Yugoslavia, 1943-1992
- 卡拉 kǎlā
- Kara (Togo)
- 呼拉圈 hūlāquān
- hula hoop
- 哥斯拉 gēsīlā
- Godzilla (Japanese ゴジラ Gojira)
- 喜馬拉雅 xǐmǎlāyǎ
- the Himalayas
- 堪培拉 kānpéilā
- Canberra, capital of Australia
拉 in a sentence
別拉我的手，很痛！
Bié lā wǒ de shǒu, hěn tòng!
“Don't pull my hand, it hurts!”
How common is 拉?
拉 is the 324th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 66.4% of all running text.
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