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lā
HSK 6freq #246

Meanings

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lā
  1. 1.(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc
  2. 2.(phonetic)
  3. 3.(dialect) to chat
la
  1. 1.sentence-final particle, contraction of 了啊, indicating exclamation
  2. 2.particle placed after each item in a list of examples

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.contraction of 了啊 (le a)
  2. 2.Used at the end of a sentence to indicate a change of state with a strong emotion.
  3. 3.Used at the end of a sentence to inform the beginning of an action with a strong emotion.
  4. 4.Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
  5. 5.cheering sound
  6. 6.Used as a final particle to indicate, focus on, or exclaim a topic, subject, declaration.
  7. 7.Used as a final particle to express exhortation.
  8. 8.already; now (Used as a final perfective particle to denote completion.)
  9. 9.Used as a final perfunctory particle to denote displeasure, unwillingness, and perfunctoriness.
  10. 10.Placed on the end of a sentence to indicate a yes-no question.
  11. 11.Used to indicate a persistent questioning tone
  12. 12.Used to indicate berating tone

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 拉.

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Stroke order

Components

啦口拉

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

Sentences from Tatoeba · CC-BY 2.0 FR

More examples & usage (AI)

Synonyms

吧閣唷喔啊囉矣了矣₁嘮咧咗嘵耗好敲誒呵哺後標都嗮畢開拋阿哩咾矣₂

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Derived terms

劈里啪啦吹啦㕷啦哩哩啦啦唏哩花啦啪啦啦啦隊啦啦队嘎啦嘰哩呱啦叽哩呱啦嘩啦哗啦嘩啦啦哗啦啦媠啦稀里嘩啦

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Related words

嗞啦 (onom.) sputter; sizzle卡啦 crispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉[kǎ lā])啦呱 variant of 拉呱[lā gua]哗啦 to collapse嘎啦 to quarrel (Northeastern Mandarin)嘎啦 (onom.) rumbling哗啦 (onom.) sound of a crash咔啦 crispy, deep-fried (variant of 卡拉[kǎ lā])啦啦队 cheerleading squad叭啦狗 bulldog呼啦圈 hula hoop (loanword)哗啦啦 (onom.) crashing sound