Chinese symbol for “lira”

里拉

lǐ lā

(loanword) lira (currency of Turkey)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for lira is 里拉 (lǐ lā), defined as: (loanword) lira (currency of Turkey).

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Characters and stroke order

里 lǐ

unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane

radical 166 ⾥ · 7 strokes

拉 lā

to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)

radical 64 ⼿ · 8 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 里拉.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
这里 (這裏)	zhè lǐ	variant of 这里 (zhè lǐ)
哪里 (哪裏)	nǎ lǐ	where?; somewhere
那里 (那裏)	nà li	there; that place
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

See also: Japanese symbol for “lira”.

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.