Chinese Character Dictionary

拉撒路

Lā să lù

Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)

拉拢

lā lŏng

to rope in

拉文克劳

Lā wén kè láo

Ravenclaw (Harry Potter)

拉文纳

Lā wén nà

Ravenna on the Adriatic coast of Italy

拉斐尔

Lā fĕi ĕr

Raphael

拉斐特

Lā fĕi tè

Lafayette

拉斯帕尔马斯

Lā sī pà ĕr mă sī

Las Palmas, Spain

拉斯穆森

Lā sī mù sēn

Rasmussen (name)

拉斯维加斯

Lā sī Wéi jiā sī

Las Vegas, Nevada

拉普拉斯

Lā pŭ lā sī

Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician

拉普兰

Lā pŭ lán

Lapland (northern Europe)

拉杆

lā gān

tension bar

拉架

lā jià

to try to stop a fight

拉格朗日

Lā gé lăng rì

Lagrange (name)

拉格比

Lā gé bĭ

Rugby (game)

拉比

lā bĭ

rabbi

拉沙病毒

lā shā bìng dú

Lassa virus

拉法格

Lā fă gé

Lafargue (name)

拉法兰

Lā fă lán

Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac

拉法赫

Lā fă hè

Rafah

拉尔夫

Lā ĕr fū

Ralph (name)

拉尔维克

Lā ĕr wéi kè

Larvik (city in Vestfold, Norway)

拉特格斯大学

Lā tè gé sī Dà xué

Rutgers University (Newark, New Jersey)

拉狄克

Lā dí kè

Karl Bernardovich Radek (199-1939), bolshevik and Comintern leader, first president of Moscow Sun Yat-sen university, died in prison during Stalin's purges

拉环

lā huán

ring pull (can)

拉瓦尔

Lā wă ĕr

Laval (name)

拉瓦锡

Lā wă xī

Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), French nobleman and scientist, considered the father of modern chemistry

拉登

Lā dēng

(Osama) bin Laden (197-2011), leader of Al Qaeda

拉皮

lā pí

to have a facelift

拉皮条

lā pí tiáo

to procure

拉祜族

Lā hù zú

Lahu ethnic group of Yunnan

拉票

lā piào

to campaign for votes

拉科鲁尼亚

Lā Kē lŭ ní yà

La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)

拉筋

lā jīn

stretching (exercise)

拉管

lā guăn

trombone

拉米夫定

Lā mĭ fū dìng

Lamivudine, reverse transcriptase inhibitor marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and widely used in the treatment of hepatitis B and AIDS

拉纳卡

lā nà kă

Larnaca (city in Cyprus)

拉丝模

lā sī mó

die (i.e. tool for cutting wire to a given diameter)

拉紧

lā jĭn

to pull tight

拉美

Lā Mĕi

Latin America

拉美西斯

Lā mĕi xī sī

Rameses (name of pharaoh)

拉肚子

lā dù zi

diarrhea

拉脱维亚

Lā tuō wéi yà

Latvia

拉兹莫夫斯基

Lā zī mò fū sī jī

Razumovsky (name)

拉茶

lā chá

teh tarik, an Indian-style tea with milk (GM)

拉莫斯

Lā mò sī

(Philippine President Fidel) Ramos

拉菲草

lā fēi căo

raffia (loanword)

拉盖尔

Lā gài ĕr

Laguerre (name)

拉萨

Lā sà

Lhasa, capital city of Tibet autonomous region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区

拉萨市

Lā sà Shì

Lhasa, Tibetan: Lha sa grong khyer, capital of Tibet autonomous region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[Xī zàng Zì zhì qū]

拉萨条约

Lā sà tiáo yuē

Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet

拉话

lā huà

to chat

拉贾斯坦邦

Lā jiă sī tăn bāng

Rajasthan (state in India)

拉赫曼尼诺夫

Lā hè màn ní nuò fū

Rachmaninoff

拉辛

Lā xīn

Jean Racine (French dramatist)

拉达克

Lā dá kè

Ladakh, the eastern part of Jammu and Kashmir in northwest India, adjacent to Kashmir and Tibet, know as "Little Tibet"

拉那烈

lā nà liè

(Prince) Ranariddh (son of King Sihanouk of Cambodia)

拉里

lā lĭ

lari (currency of Georgia) (loanword)

拉钩

lā gōu

pinky swear

拉锯

lā jù

a two-man saw