to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels
拉
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扌
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立
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Mnemonic symbol: a fiddlestick
拉
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扌
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In front of the ashram, sir Lancelot tries to make some music using a fiddlestick and a vase by bowing along the opening of the vase. Maybe he would be successful if he put down that silly toy claw.