qiān
drag
A person pulling 冖 an ox 牛 by a rope 玄
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 牽
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to lead along | ||
to involve | ||
to involve | ||
to implicate | ||
to worry about |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ʰˤi[n] | khen | qiān | pull, lead, drag |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 19.6060% of movies
1618th most common character in movies
1679th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+727D |
Shuowen | “牽,引前也。从牛,象引牛之縻也,玄聲。” |
Sources
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