Chinese Character 拉 Meanings and components.

Form

拉

Meaning

拉 meaning^[3] in English

To Pull.

To Play (A Bowed Instrument).

To Drag.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 拉 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and surname Li (立)

Its radical^[1] is: 手 (shou3) which means: Hand, (Formal) To Hold, Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work, Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work, Personal(Ly), Convenient, Classifier For Skill, Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1], .手shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QYT

How to write 拉

To write拉la1to pull you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 立li4surname Li arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 立 = 拉

拉 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 拉 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 拉, looks as follow:

拉

Pinyin:la1 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: To Pull . To Play (A Bowed Instrument) . To Drag . To Draw . To Chat

扌

Pinyin:shou5

Meaning^[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc

立

Pinyin:li4

Meaning^[3]: Surname Li

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
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