| 拉 | lā liàn | (military) to undergo field training (camping, bivouacking, route marching, live fire practice etc) / (sports) to get into peak condition by competing overseas | 
| 拉 | lā | to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels | 
| 拉 | lá | to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash | 
| 拉 | là | used in 拉拉蛄 / variant of 落 | 
| 练 | liàn | to practice / to train / to drill / to perfect (one's skill) / exercise / (literary) white silk / to boil and scour raw silk |