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拉

拉

Translingual

Han character

拉 (radical 64 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手卜廿 (QYT), four-corner 50018, composition ⿰扌立)

References

  • KangXi: page 425, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11946
  • Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1857, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+62C9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 拉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 拉
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (立) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涖 *rɯːbs, *rɯbs
莅 *rɯbs, *rɯbs
蒞 *rɯbs
位 *ɢʷrɯbs
拉 *ruːb
菈 *ruːb
颯 *sluːb
立 *rɯb
粒 *rɯb
笠 *ɡ·rɯb
砬 *rɯb
岦 *rɯb
苙 *ɡ·rɯb, *ɡrɯb
鴗 *rɯb
雴 *r̥ʰɯb
泣 *kʰrɯb

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 拉
Mandarin Beijing /la⁵⁵/
Harbin /la⁴⁴/ ～車
/la²⁴/ ～鋸
Tianjin /lɑ²¹/
Jinan /la²¹³/
/la⁴²/ ～呱兒
Qingdao /la⁵⁵/
/la²¹³/ ～屎
Zhengzhou /la²⁴/
Xi'an /la²¹/
Xining /la⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /la⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /la³¹/
Ürümqi /la⁴⁴/
Wuhan /na⁵⁵/
Chengdu /na⁵⁵/
Guiyang /la⁵⁵/
Kunming /la̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /lɑ³¹/
Hefei /la²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /laʔ²/
Pingyao /lɑ¹³/
Hohhot /laʔ⁴³/ ～屎
/la³¹/ ～東西
Wu Shanghai /la⁵³/
Suzhou /lɑ⁵⁵/
/laʔ³/ ～丁
Hangzhou /lɑ³³/
Wenzhou /la³³/
Hui Shexian /la³¹/
Tunxi /la¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /la²⁴/
Xiangtan /nɒ³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /la⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /lɑ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /lai⁵³/
Nanning /lai⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /lai⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lap̚⁵/
/la⁵⁵/ 俗
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /la⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /la⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /lap̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /la⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 拉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 合 (160)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 盧合切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lʌp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ləp̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lɒp̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ləp̚/
Li
Rong		 /lᴀp̚/
Wang
Li		 /lɒp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lăp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 l-
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 拉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 là
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lop ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ˤəp/
English break

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 拉
Reading # 1/1
No. 7866
Phonetic
component		 立
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 拉
Old
Chinese		 /*ruːb/

Definitions

拉

  1. to drag
  2. to pull
  3. to play (a bowed instrument)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

拉

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

拉 • ‎(rap>nap) (hangeul 랍>납, McCune-Reischauer rap>nap, Yale lap>nap)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拉 (lấp, dập, lắp, lạp, lớp, lợp, loạt, rắp, rập, sắp, sụp, đập, giập, láp, lọp, ráp, xập, xệp)

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