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拉

lā

pull

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 立 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

立 sound component

立  Sound component

lì

  

stand

Evolution

拉 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
拉 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

拉  

lā

pull, drag; seize, hold; lengthen; to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat

Most common words with 拉
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拉

to pull

伊拉克

Iraq

拉开

to pull open

卡拉

Cara, Karla etc (name)

莎拉

Sara or Sarah (name)

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

啦

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤəp

lop

là

break


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 73.0738% of movies

256th most common character in movies

324th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+62C9

Shuowen

“拉，摧也。从手，立聲。”


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