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  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels
HSK 2
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  *辣* | 辣* | *辣
old variant of
HSK 4
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  *辣* | 辣* | *辣
hot (spicy) / pungent / (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting / to burn
HSK 4
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  *落* | 落* | *落
to leave out / to be missing / to leave behind or forget to bring / to lag or fall behind
HSK 5
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  *啦* | 啦* | *啦
sentence-final particle, contraction of 了啊, indicating exclamation / particle placed after each item in a list of examples
HSK 6
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  *蜡* | 蜡* | *蜡
candle / wax
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
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  *拉* | 拉* | *拉
used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *啦* | 啦* | *啦
(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc / (phonetic) / (dialect) to chat
music notation in which the notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Si are represented by numerals 1 to 7
midnight / to order à la carte / (math.) zero of a function
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剌* | 剌* | *剌
perverse / unreasonable / absurd
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  *鞡* | 鞡* | *鞡
used in 靰鞡 / Taiwan pr. [la1]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腊* | 腊* | *腊
ancient practice of offering sacrifices to the gods in the 12th lunar month / the 12th lunar month / (bound form) (of meat, fish etc) cured in winter, esp. in the 12th lunar month
La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system
Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel
Castilla, old Spanish kingdom / modern Spanish provinces of Castilla-Leon and Castilla-La Mancha
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *喇* | 喇* | *喇
(onom.) sound of wind, rain etc
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  *喇* | 喇* | *喇
(phonetic)
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  *垃* | 垃* | *垃
used in 垃圾 / Taiwan pr. [le4]
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
Fang La
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *攋* | 攋* | *攋
to destroy / to rip / to tear open
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  *砬* | 砬* | *砬
a huge boulder / a towering rock
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
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  *邋* | 邋* | *邋
used in 邋遢
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  *楋* | 楋* | *楋
(archaic) species of tree mentioned in ancient texts
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  *旯* | 旯* | *旯
used in 旮旯
refined cream cheese / fig. crème de la crème / nirvana / Buddha nature / Buddhist truth / broth / flawless personal character
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *剌* | 剌* | *剌
variant of (Note: was the character used prior to simplification and remains the standard in Taiwan, while in mainland China, has replaced )
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *镴* | 镴* | *镴
solder / tin
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  *瘌* | 瘌* | *瘌
scabies / scald-head
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  *腊* | 腊* | *腊
old variant of 臘|腊
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  *蝲* | 蝲* | *蝲
used in 蝲蛄 / used in 蝲蝲蛄
to order à la carte / single point (of measurement, mounting etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *揦* | 揦* | *揦
old variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鬎* | 鬎* | *鬎
bald / scabby
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  *磖* | 磖* | *磖
old variant of
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *蝋* | 蝋* | *蝋
Japanese variant of 蠟|蜡
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *䗶* | 䗶* | *䗶
old variant of 蠟|蜡
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
methodology / Discours de la méthode by René Descartes 笛卡兒|笛卡儿, 1637
La Salle (used in the names of schools etc) / Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719), French priest, founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克
Chinese style / à la chinoise
pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齒音|齿音, 唇音
La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺
Tale of Courtesan Li Wa, novel by Tang writer Bai Xingjian 白行簡|白行简 along the lines of La Traviata, favorite opera plot
Andorra la Vella, capital of Andorra
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, usually written as 拉巴斯
many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)
Nathu La (Himalayan pass on the Silk Road between Tibet and the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim)
Aachen, city in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany / Aix-la-Chapelle
La Niña (counterpart of El Niño in meteorology)
names of the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
minor triad la-do-mi
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia
René Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher and author of Discours de la méthode 方法論|方法论
Aachen, city in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany / Aix-la-Chapelle / also written 亞琛|亚琛
La Marseillaise


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