| 拉 |
| (Alternative form 摺, 搚, 拹) | |
| 1. to pull; to drag; to tug | |
| 將 窗簾 拉laai1 落嚟 - pull down window blinds | |
| 2. to transport by vehicle; to haul; to carry on a vehicle | |
| 3. to play (a bowed instrument, an accordion, etc.) | |
| 拉 二胡 - to play the erhu | |
| 我 不會 拉 小提琴。 - I don't know how to play the violin. | |
| 4. to drag out; to draw out | |
| 5. (Mainland) to owe; to be in arrears | |
| 6. to lead (a group to a place); to move (a group to a place) | |
| 7. to help; to lend (a hand) | |
| 8. to invite; to recruit | |
| 9. to drag in; to implicate | |
| 10. to draw in; to canvass; to solicit; to attract | |
| 11. to organize (a group); to form (a group) | |
| 12. (Cantonese) to arrest | |
| 13. (dialectal) to bring up; to raise | |
| 14. (Mainland, colloquial) to chat | |
| 拉 家常 - to chitchat | |
| 15. to excrete | |
| 拉 大便 - to poo | |
| 16. (Hong Kong, internet slang) to cause a thread to sink to the bottom of list of threads; to "pull". | |
| (syn, yue, pull) | |
| (ant, yue, 推, push) | |
| 17. (dated Shanghainese Wu) (Used to mark the perfective aspect.) | |
| Synonyms: 拉哉, 拉哩 | |
| 勿 吃 要 罰 個！吃 拉哉。 - tr=, If you didn't eat you would be punished! Finish the food (ie. have the food be finished)., SH, ref=2010, Qian Nairong, 《從〈滬語便商〉所見的老上海話時態》 (Tenses and Aspects? Old Shanghai | |
| 18. (Mainland) to cut; to slit; to slash | |
| (Alternative form 剌) | |
| 19. (Mainland, colloquial) section; part | |
| 20. Alternative form of 落 (là) | |
| 21. Used in 拉拉蛄 (,) Alternative form of 蝲蝲蛄 | |
| 22. (A verbal suffix.) | |
