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Kanji Detail for 牽 - "pull, lead, attract"
牽
- Meaning
牽 means "pull, lead, attract."
To pull - To draw; to attract.
To be bound - To be tied; to lose freedom.
To lead - To guide; to conduct.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
pull; tug; drag; lead by hand
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
drag, pull, lead by hand
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to lead along; to pull (an animal on a tether); (bound form) to involve; to draw in
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to drag, to pull, to lead by the hand
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Leading livestock forward. Anything not free to advance or retreat is also called 牽. As in 牽絆 (entanglement), 牽率 (to involve). | To be restrained. As in 拘文牽義 (fettered by text and meaning). | A rope for towing boats. Now commonly written as 縴.
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