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拉尼娜

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DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-5517f75c4c24b496. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

拉尼娜 拉尼娜 [La1 Ni2 na4] /La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺/

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Character information

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  • 拉
    lā

    to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels

    lá

    to make a cut in (sth) / to slit / to gash / to slash

    là

    used in 拉拉蛄[là là gǔ]

  • 尼
    ní

    Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)

  • 娜
    nà

    (phonetic na) / used esp. in female names such as Anna 安娜[Ān nà] or Diana 黛安娜[Dài ān nà]

    nuó

    elegant / graceful

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