la
particle #35,287

Meanings

  1. 1 sentence-final particle (Cantonese, = 了/啦)
  2. 2 sound of wind or rain (onomatopoeia)

Examples

Wǒ zǒu la!
I'm off now! (Cantonese: ngo5 zau2 laa3)
Shí fàn la.
Time to eat. (Cantonese sentence)
Fēng chuī de lā lā xiǎng.
The wind howled with a whooshing sound.

Tips

register
In Cantonese writing (laa3) is one of the most common sentence-final particles — roughly the completive/softener +. In Mandarin the same character is also onomatopoeia for wind/rain ( lā), which is where CC-CEDICT's entries come from.
mistakes
Don't confuse with (la) or (le). In Mandarin texts is the usual softener; seeing at the end of a sentence strongly signals the writing is Cantonese.

Stroke Order

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