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拉

拉: to abduct

to abduct; to crush
8 strokesSecondary · Stage 4 (about 2級)in 3 words here

Readings

On
ラツ・ラ・ロウ
Kun
らっする・ひしぐ・くだく

Mostly 拉致 (abduction) today; 拉麺 and 拉丁 are old phonetic spellings of ラーメン and ラテン.

Key words

拉致らちabduction
拉致被害者らちひがいしゃabduction victim
拉麺らーめんramen noodles
拉丁語らてんごLatin (language)

Example sentences

In the movie, the villain abducted the hero's friend.

The shop's signboard had 「拉麺」 written in large characters.

Many medical terms come from Latin.

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