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Mythic Mandarin

拉面 (lā miàn): meaning and stroke order

拉面 (lā miàn) means pulled noodles, ramen.

拉面

Simplified
拉面
Traditional
拉麵
Pinyin
lā miàn

Stroke order of 拉面

拉

  • lā to pull; to play (a bowed instrument)
  • lá to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
  • là used in 拉拉蛄[la4 la4 gu3]; variant of 落[la4]
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

面

  • miàn face; side
  • miàn variant of 麵|面[mian4]
  • miàn flour; noodles
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 麪

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 拉面

  1. lā miàn Traditional 拉麵
    • pulled noodles
    • ramen

Radicals of the characters

拉
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 8 strokes · 扌 on the left, 立 on the right
面
Radical 面 (Kangxi radical 176) · 9 strokes · 丆 on top, 囬 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

拉面 in our stories

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  • 妈妈根本不知道镜头开着。她一边拉面，一边数落儿子：“你看看你，练了半年，胳膊还没我粗！”

    māma gēnběn bù zhīdao jìngtóu kāi zhe tā yìbiān lāmiàn yìbiān shǔluo érzi nǐ kànkan nǐ liàn le bànnián gēbo hái méi wǒ cū

    His mother had no idea the camera was on. Pulling noodles, she scolded her son: "Look at you—six months of training and your arms still aren't as thick as mine!"

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 拉面

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).