拉丁

拉

la̅

丁

di̅ng

Latin / (in former times) to press-gang / to kidnap and force people into service

Characters and words in 拉丁

拉

la̅ = l + a1

to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels

拉 = 扌 + 立 : Mnemonic symbol: a fiddlestick

拉 = 扌 + 立 : 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.

丁

di̅ng = di + (e)ng1

male adult / the 4th of the 10 Heavenly Stems 天干[tian1 gan1] / fourth (used like "4" or "D") / small cube of meat or vegetable / (literary) to encounter / (archaic) ancient Chinese compass point: 195° / (chemistry) butyl

丁 = 一 + 亅 : Mnemonic symobl: a nail. 一 is the head of the nail and 亅 is the shaft. The point of the nail is already a bit bent.

Dorothy Gale (di) balances a flute (一) on a crowbar (亅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). For this trick, she wins the fourth (丁) place in an artists competition and gets a quarter (丁) of a pizza as prize. Unfortunately, there is a big nail (mnemonic symbol for 丁) on the pizza slice.