拉拢
lā lǒng · HSK 7
to rope in
🪢🤝 拉 pull + 拢 gather = pull people in and gather them onto your side
拉 means to pull or drag, and 拢 means to gather or draw together. Combined, you pull others over and gather them close, which is exactly what roping someone in or enticing them to join your camp means.
拉 — hand radical 扌 + 立 (stand, phonetic)
拉 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 indicates an action done with the hand, while 立 (lì, 'stand') supplies the sound, shifted to lā. The original sense is to pull or drag with the hand, which remains its core meaning today.