HSK 6 · Objects

喇叭 lǎba “horn” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 喇叭 means

  1. horn
  2. trumpet
  3. loudspeaker
  4. horn (automobile etc)
  5. brass wind instrument
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • suona 锁呐

How to say 喇叭

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale喇lǎ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own叭baneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

喇叭 in a sentence

  1. 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 down and sounded its horn as it approached the crossing.

    Sentence #1516223 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 喇叭 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 喇 (lǎ) with each of its parts in a different colour
喇lǎphonetic
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 剌to slash · làSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 剌 (là) hints at the sound. Compare it with lǎ.

The character 叭 (bā) with each of its parts in a different colour
叭bādenote a sound or sharp noiselight in 喇叭
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 八eight · bāSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 八 (bā) hints at the sound. Compare it with ba.

How to write 喇叭

喇 12 strokes · 叭 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

喇叭 (lǎba) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 喇叭 (lǎba). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

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FAQs

喇叭 (lǎba) means “horn” or “trumpet”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it lǎba: lǎ with a 3rd tone, then ba with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 喇叭 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type laba with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 喇叭 from the suggestions. Typing laba into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
喇叭 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.