The Chinese word for to pull is
拉

lā

Chinese Definition

拖拉
1. v. to pull; to drag
2. v. to delay; to put off; to procrastinate; to adjourn; to defer; to prolong
3. adj. slow; sluggish

引
1. to pull, draw out, attract
2. to stretch
3. to lead
4. to induce
5. to recommend (, zh,)
6. to reference, to quote
7. to leave
8. (music) prelude
9. (archaic) sales permit
10. (particularly for the sense " to lead")
11. (Quanzhou Hokkien, honorific) (Prefix for kinship terms.)
引公kong - grandpa, MN
12. Variant of 蚓

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.)