| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) / (modal particle intensifying preceding clause) |
| 乐 | lè | happy / cheerful / to laugh |
| 勒 | lè | (literary) bridle; halter; headstall / to rein in / to compel; to force / (literary) to carve; to engrave / (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯[le4 ke4 si1]) |
| 簕 | lè | bound form used in 簕竹[le4 zhu2] |
| 阞 | lè | layer / vein |
| 叻 | lè | (used in place names) |
| 鳓 | lè | Chinese herring (Ilisha elongata) / white herring / slender shad |
| 砳 | lè | rocky |
| 伯乐 | Bó Lè | Bo Le (horse connoisseur during Spring and Autumn Period) / a good judge of talent / talent scout |
| 泐 | lè | to write |
| 杀鸡儆猴 | shā jī jǐng hóu | lit. killing the chicken to warn the monkey (idiom) / fig. to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres |
| 依云 | Yī yún | Evian, mineral water company / Évian-les-Bains, resort and spa town in south-eastern France |
| 仂 | lè | surplus / tithe |
| 饹 | le | used in 餄餎|饸饹[he2le5] |
| 乐安 | Lè ān | Le'an county in Fuzhou 撫州|抚州, Jiangxi |
| 扐 | lè | divination by straw |
| 艻 | lè | used in 蘿艻|萝艻[luo2 le4] |
| 杀一儆百 | shā yī jǐng bǎi | lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres |
| 杀鸡吓猴 | shā jī xià hóu | lit. killing the chicken to scare the monkey (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres |
| 楽 | lè | Japanese variant of 樂|乐[le4] |
| 石勒 | Shí Lè | Shi Le, founder of Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4] (319-350) |
| 悲惨世界 | Bēi cǎn Shì jiè | Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果[Wei2 ke4 duo1 · Yu3 guo3] |
| 乐 | Lè | surname Le |
| 黎利 | Lí Lì | Le Loi, Vietnamese general and emperor who won back independence for Vietnam from China in 1428 |
| 世界报 | Shì jiè Bào | the name of various newspapers, notably Le Monde (France), El Mundo (Spain) and Die Welt (Germany) |