腊 — Chinese character
腊
là
December; year's end sacrifice; dried meat
- Pinyin
- là
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 昔
- Formation
- ideographic — A sacrifice of meat ⺼ for the past year 昔
- Traditional
- 臘
Common words with 腊
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古希腊 (古希臘) | gǔ Xī là | ancient Greece |
| 腊肉 (臘肉) | là ròu | meat that has been cured and air-dried in the cold (esp. during the 12th lunar month) |
| 腊肠 (臘腸) | là cháng | sausage |
| 腊梅 (臘梅) | là méi | wintersweet; Japanese allspice |
| 腊八粥 (臘八粥) | là bā zhōu | Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar |
| 烧腊 (燒臘) | shāo là | siu mei (烧味 (shāo wèi)) made from cured meat 腊肉 (là ròu) |
| 腊肠犬 (臘腸犬) | là cháng quǎn | dachshund |
| 腊八节 (臘八節) | là bā jié | Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month |
| 残冬腊月 (殘冬臘月) | cán dōng là yuè | final days of the lunar year |
| 老腊肉 (老臘肉) | lǎo là ròu | (coll.) experienced and usually well-positioned middle-aged man |
| 腊克 (臘克) | là kè | lacquer (loanword) |
English words written with 腊
腊 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.