啦

啦	U+5566, 啦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5566

← 啥
[U+5565]

CJK Unified Ideographs

啧 →
[U+5567]

Translingual

Han character

啦 (radical 30 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口手卜廿 (RQYT), four-corner 6001₈, composition ⿰口拉)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 196, character 26

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3882

Dae Jaweon: page 418, character 17

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 636, character 5

Unihan data for U+5566

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		啦

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): la (la⁵)

(Zhuyin): ˙ㄌㄚ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: la
  - Zhuyin: ˙ㄌㄚ
  - Wade-Giles: la⁵
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .lha
  - IPA ^(key): /la̠/

Definitions

啦

(Mandarin, colloquial) Contraction of 了啊 (le a).

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		啦

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lā (la¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄚ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: lā
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄚ
  - Wade-Giles: la¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lha
  - IPA ^(key): /la̠⁵⁵/

Definitions

啦

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Etymology 3

simp. and trad.		啦
alt. forms		喇罅

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): laa¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: laa¹
  - Yale: lā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: laa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: la¹
  - IPA ^(key): /lɑː⁵⁵/

Definitions

啦

(Cantonese) Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.

離開！ / 离开！ [Cantonese] ― Lei⁴ hoi¹! [Jyutping] ― Leave!

離開啦！ / 离开啦！ [Cantonese] ― Lei⁴ hoi¹ laa¹! [Jyutping] ― Leave (please)!

Usage notes

The first sentence is very impersonal and straight forward, whilst the second has been softened down by the particle 啦.
The usage of this particle is usually spoken, but its written form can be used in some informal writing. With more formal settings of writing, the Mandarin particle 吧 (baa6) is used instead.

Descendants

→ English: lah (or via Malay lah)
→ Malay: lah
- → English: lah (or directly from Cantonese 啦)

Synonyms

(Mandarin) 吧 (ba)

Etymology 4

simp. and trad.		啦

Pronunciation

Min Nan (POJ): --la / --lah

Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --la
  - Tâi-lô: --la
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: --lah
  - Tâi-lô: --lah

Definitions

啦

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Compounds

㕷啦
劈里啪啦
吹啦
哩哩啦啦 (līlilālā)

唏哩花啦
啦啦隊／啦啦队
啪啦 (pālā)
嘎啦 (gālā)

嘩啦／哗啦
嘩啦啦／哗啦啦
嘰哩呱啦／叽哩呱啦 (jīliguālā)
稀里嘩啦／稀里哗啦 (xīlǐhuālā)

Japanese

Kanji

啦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ろう (rō)^{←らふ (rafu, historical)}

Vietnamese

Han character

啦 (lạp, láp)

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