in English

verb HSK 4
to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels

Stroke order

Le caractère 拉 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 拉 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

  • Small seal script: 拉 Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 「克里奥帕特拉」这个名字已经成为了美女的代名词。

    The name "Cleopatra" has become a byword for a beautiful woman.

  • 「這是阿拉伯文嗎?」「不是,這是維吾爾文,一種中國西北部的語言。」

    "Is this Arabic?" "No, it's Uyghur - a language that's spoken in northwestern China."

  • 150个人参加了马拉松比赛。

    One hundred and fifty people entered the marathon race.

  • 不要东拉西扯。

    Don't ramble.

  • 他写阿拉伯文。

    He writes Arabic.

  • 他非常擅長拉小提琴。

    He is very good at playing violin.

  • 伯拉罕·林肯,美国第16任总统,生于肯塔基州的一个简陋的小屋里。

    Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.

  • 你会讲阿拉伯语吗?

    Do you speak Arabic?

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