拉拢
lā​lǒng HSK7

win over

拉 lā, la pull

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 立 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

立
立 Sound component
lì stand
Change in sound

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (1)

啦

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlop[r]ˤəp break

說文解字

《說文》：“拉，摧也。从手，立聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

拢 lǒng collect Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 龙 represents the sound. Simplified form of 攏.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

龙
龙 Sound component
lóng dragon

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

攏 lǒng collect Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 龍 represents the sound.

Components

扌
扌 Meaning component
shou, shǒu hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

龍
龍 Sound component
lóng dragon

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangroːŋʔ
Unicodelǔng

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang