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喇叭

lǎ ba

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

喇叭 (lǎ ba) means "horn (automobile etc); loudspeaker; brass wind instrument". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 喇叭 means

1. horn (automobile etc)
2. loudspeaker
3. brass wind instrument
4. trumpet
5. suona {锁呐|suǒ nà}

The characters in 喇叭

• 喇lǎ(phonetic)
• 叭bādenote a sound or sharp noise (gunfire etc)

Example sentences

• 火车在快到交叉路口的时候减速、按喇叭。
  Huǒchē zài kuài dào jiāochā lùkǒu de shíhou jiǎnsù, àn lǎba.
  The train slowed and blared its horn as it approached the railway crossing.
• 我敢打赌，在Tom Waits发掘它当幕后支援前你从来没有听说过斯特罗小提琴！无论如何，1920年代末前它采用了一个大型金属喇叭谐振器来代替木制音箱，以便它可以更好地被录音设备收音。
  Wǒ gǎn dǎdǔ, zài T om Waits fājué tā dāng mùhòu zhīyuán qián nǐ cóngláiméiyǒu tīngshuō guo sī tè luó xiǎotíqín! wúlùnrúhé,1920 niándài mò qián tā cǎiyòng le yī gè dàxíng jīnshǔ lǎba xiézhèn qì lái dàitì mùzhì yīnxiāng, yǐbiàn tā kěyǐ gèng hǎo de bèi lùyīn shèbèi shōuyīn.
  I bet you'd never heard of a Stroh violin before Tom Waits dug it back up! Anyway, it used a large metal horn as its resonator instead of a wooden box so it could be picked up better by recording equipment before the late 1920s.

Words starting with 喇叭

• 喇叭形lǎ ba xíngflared; funnel-shape; trumpet-shape
• 喇叭花lǎ ba huāmorning glory
• 喇叭裙lǎ ba qúnflared skirt
• 喇叭裤lǎ ba kùflared trousers; bell-bottomed pants
• 喇叭水仙lā bā shuǐ xiāndaffodil

Words containing 喇叭

• 高音喇叭gāo yīn lǎ batweeter
• 吹喇叭chuī lǎ ba(lit.) blowing the trumpet; (fig.) to praise sb; (slang) to give a blowjob
• 伸缩喇叭shēn suō lǎ batrombone
• 低音喇叭dī yīn lǎ bawoofer

Where 喇叭 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · lā–láo (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lǎ ba correctly.
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