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剌
lá
1. to slash
Common • Top 15% ✏️ 9 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

剌
lá
to slash, to cut in two; to contradict
9 丶

Compound Words (6)

大剌剌
dàlàlà
pompous
榜葛剌
Bǎnggélà
old Chinese name for Bengal, now written [[孟加拉<Mèngjiālā>]]
满剌加
Mǎnlàjiā
Ming Dynasty name for modern day Malacca
热剌剌
rèlàlà
smartingly painful
札马剌丁
Zhámǎládīng
see [[紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁<Zāmǎládīng>]]
扎马剌丁
Zāmǎládīng
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan [[忽必烈]] from c. 1260

Alternate Entries

剌
là
perverse / unreasonable / absurd

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Category
Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
3,576
Word Frequency Rank
12,785 of 84,292

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