拉

How to write 拉, stroke by stroke

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What 拉 means

to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels; to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash; used in 拉拉蛄; variant of 落

Pictophonetic: semantic 扌 (hand), phonetic 立

Made of 扌 + 立

Words with 拉

• 拉屎lā shǐto defecate; to shit; to crap
• 阿拉ā lā(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our
• 拉开lā kāito pull open; to pull apart; to space out; to increase
• 拉拉lā lā(slang) lesbian; (coll.) Labrador retriever
• 拉丁lā dīngLatin; (in former times) to press-gang; to kidnap and force people into service
• 拉链lā liànzipper
• 拉夫lā fūto force into service; press-gang
• 拉面lā miànpulled noodles; ramen
• 哈拉hā lāto chat idly (Tw)
• 拉倒lā dǎo(coll.) forget it; drop it; let it go; to pull down
• 拖拉机tuō lā jītractor
• 拉近lā jìnto pull sb close to oneself; (fig.) (typically followed by 距离) to bridge (the distance between people) (i.e. to build a closer relationship)

拉 in a sentence

• 我住在一个鸟不拉屎的地方。

  wǒ zhù zài yí gè niǎo bù lā shǐ de dì fāng 。

  I live in the middle of nowhere.

• 当我拉开了窗帘时，在下雪呢。

  dāng wǒ lā kāi le chuāng lián shí ， zài xià xuě ne 。

  When I opened the curtains, it was snowing.

• 要不要再来一些沙拉？

  yào bu yào zài lái yì xiē shā lā ？

  Would you like some more salad?

• 你应该每天练习拉小提琴。

  nǐ yīng gāi měi tiān liàn xí lā xiǎo tí qín 。

  You should practice playing the violin every day.

• 这拉链卡卡的。

  zhè lā liàn kǎ kǎ de 。

  This zipper doesn't zip smoothly.

Characters that sound like 拉

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