Chinese symbol for “filibuster”
拉布
lā bù
(Hong Kong) to filibuster
The closest CC-CEDICT match for filibuster is 拉布 (lā bù), defined as: (Hong Kong) to filibuster.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “filibuster”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拖延时间 (拖延時間) | tuō yán shí jiān | to procrastinate; to stall for time |
| 冗长辩论 (冗長辯論) | rǒng cháng biàn lùn | filibuster |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 拉布.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 卡拉 | kǎ lā | karaoke; (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried |
| 阿拉 | ā lā | (Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our |
| 克拉 | kè lā | carat (mass) (loanword) |
| 拉丁 | lā dīng | Latin; (in former times) to press-gang |
| 拉拉 | lā lā | (slang) lesbian; (coll.) Labrador retriever |
| 马拉松 (馬拉松) | mǎ lā sōng | (loanword) marathon |
| 发布 (發佈) | fā bù | variant of 发布 (fā bù) |
| 宣布 (宣佈) | xuān bù | variant of 宣布 (xuān bù) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “filibuster”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.