拉

HSK 4#484 by frequencyradical 扌

lā["v","b"]

to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels

là

used in 拉拉蛄[la4 la4 gu3]; variant of 落[la4]

lá

to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash

Examples

我拉肚子。

I have diarrhea.

我拉肚子了。

I have diarrhea.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.