Translingual

Han character

啦 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口手卜廿 (RQYT), four-corner 6001₈, composition ⿰口拉)

1. final particle of assertion

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 196, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3882
• Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 636, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5566

Cantonese

Hanzi

啦 ‎(Jyutping laa1, Yale la1)

Particle

啦

1. Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.

   離開！ / 离开！ [Cantonese]  ―  Lei⁴ hoi¹! [Jyutping]  ―  Leave!

   離開啦！ / 离开啦！ [Cantonese]  ―  Lei⁴ hoi¹laa¹! [Jyutping]  ―  Leave (please)!

Alternative forms

• 喇 (lǎ), 罅

Usage notes

• The first sentence is very impersonal and straight forward, whilst the second has been softened down by the particle 啦.
• The particle 啦 is the Cantonese replacement for the Mandarin particle 吧 (ba).
• The usage of this particle is usually spoken, but its written form can be used in some informal writing. With more formal settings of writing, the Mandarin particle 吧 (baa6) is used instead.

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ろう < らふ (rō < rafu)

Mandarin

Pronunciation

Particle

啦 ‎(Pinyin la)

1. sentence-final particle, contraction of 了啊, indicating exclamation / particle placed after each item in a list of examples

Hanzi

啦 ‎(Pinyin lā)

1. (onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc / (phonetic) / (dialect) to chat

References

• 啦 in CEDICT on MDBG

Vietnamese

Han character

啦 (lạp, láp)

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