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勒

lè

Character

What 勒 means

1. literarybridle; halter; headstall
2. to rein in
3. to compel; to force
4. literaryto carve; to engrave
5. literaryto command; to lead (an army etc)
6. physicslux (abbr. for {勒克斯|lè kè sī})

Other readings

勒 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• lēito strap tightly; to bind

Example sentences

• 希特勒恨犹太人。
  Xītèlè hèn Yóutàirén.
  Hitler hated the Jews.
• 找到法迪勒并不难。
  Finding Fadil isn't hard.
• 上帝保佑巴勒斯坦。
  God bless Palestine.
• 有一个叫米勒的想见你。
  Yǒu yī gè jiào mǐ lè de xiǎngjiàn nǐ.
  A Mr. Miller wants to see you.
• 加里宁格勒旧称为哥尼斯堡。
  Jiālǐnínggélè jiùchēng wèi Gēnísībǎo.
  Kaliningrad was once called Koenigsberg.
• 海伦凯勒眼盲，耳聋，又哑。
  Hǎilún kǎi lè yǎn máng, ěrlóng, yòu yā.
  Helen Keller was blind, deaf and dumb.

Words starting with 勒

• 勒索lè suǒto blackmail; to extort
• 勒令lè lìngto order; to force
• 勒死lēi sǐto strangle
• 勒马lè mǎto guide a horse with the reins; to rein in a horse
• 勒克斯lè kè sīlux (unit of illuminance) (loanword)
• 勒勒车lēi lēi chēwagon (yoked to beast of burden)
• 勒索罪lè suǒ zuìblackmail
• 勒维纳斯Lè wéi nà sīLevinas (philosopher)
• 勒维夫Lè wéi fuLviv (Lvov), town in western Ukraine
• 勒斯波斯Lè sī bō sīLesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
• 勒斯波斯岛Lè sī bō sī DǎoLesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
• 勒哈费尔Lè Hā fèi ěrLe Havre (French town)
• 勒威耶Lè wēi yēUrbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the…
• 勒杀lēi shāto strangle
• 勒索软件lè suǒ ruǎn jiànransomware (computing)
• 勒紧lēi jǐnto tighten
• 勒戒lè jièto force sb to give up (a drug); to enforce abstinence; to break drug dependence
• 勒紧裤带lēi jǐn kù dàito tighten one's belt; to live more frugally
• 勒逼lè bīto coerce; to force; to press sb into doing sth
• 勒庞Lè PángJean-Marie Le Pen (1928-), French Front National extreme right-wing politician
• 勒脖子lēi bó zito throttle; to strangle
• 勒毙lēi bìto strangle or throttle to death

Words containing 勒

• 希特勒Xī tè lèAdolf Hitler (1889-1945)
• 巴勒斯坦Bā lè sī tǎnPalestine
• 勾勒gōu lèto draw the outline of; to outline; to sketch
• 加勒比海Jiā lè bǐ HǎiCaribbean Sea
• 列宁格勒Liè níng gé lèLeningrad, former name (1923–1991) of Russian city Saint Petersburg 圣彼得堡
• 敲诈勒索qiāo zhà lè suǒextortion and blackmail (idiom)
• 弥勒佛Mí lè fóMaitreya; the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
• 洛克菲勒Luò kè fēi lèRockefeller
• 悬崖勒马xuán yá lè mǎlit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom)…
• 那不勒斯Nà bù lè sīNapoli, capital of Campania region of Italy; Naples
• 费德勒Fèi dé lèRoger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
• 弥勒Mí lèMaitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
• 克勒Kè lèKeller or Köhler (name); Horst Köhler (1943-), German economist and CDU politician, head…
• 情勒qíng lèemotional blackmail (abbr. for 情绪勒索
• 格勒gé lè(onomatopoeia) laughing sound; glug-glug haha!
• 罗勒luó lèsweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)
• 加勒比Jiā lè bǐCaribbean
• 法勒斯Fǎ lè sīPerez (son of Judah)
• 多普勒Duō pǔ lèChristian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect
• 开普勒Kāi pǔ lèJohannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of…
• 德勒巴克Dé lè bā kèDrøbak (city in Akershus, Norway)
• 我勒个去wǒ lè ge qù(slang) shoot!; crap!
• 布加勒斯特Bù jiā lè sī tèBucharest, capital of Romania
• 斯大林格勒Sī dà lín gé lèStalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)

Characters that look like 勒

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 朗lǎngclear; bright
• 割gēto cut; to cut apart
• 匙shiused in 钥匙
• 勘kānto investigate; to survey; to collate
• 郭guōouter city wall
• 躯qūhuman body

Sounds the same

Read lè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 乐happy; cheerful; to laugh
• 叻(used in place names)
• 泐to write
• 仂surplus; tithe
• 阞layer; vein
• 砳rocky
• 扐divination by straw
• 簕used in 簕竹
• 艻used in 萝艻
• 鳓Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata); white herring; slender shad