引
HSK 4freq #2892
Meanings
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- 1.to draw (e.g. a bow)
- 2.to pull
- 3.to stretch sth
- 4.to extend
- 5.to lengthen
- 6.to involve or implicate in
- 7.to attract
- 8.to lead
- 9.to guide
- 10.to leave
- 11.to provide evidence or justification for
- 12.old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhàng], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
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Wiktionary
- 1.to pull; to draw (a bow)
- 2.to stretch; to extend
- 3.to lead; to guide
- 4.to induce; to attract
- 5.to recommend; to promote
- 6.to reference; to quote
- 7.to pull back; to leave
- 8.permit; pass
- 9.prelude
- 10.a style of musical composition
- 11.a unit of length, traditionally equal to 10 zhang
- 12.a form of paper money
- 13.Prefix for kinship terms.
- 14.earthworm
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 弓 (“bow”) + 丿 (“indicatory stroke”) Oracle-bone and bronze forms depict a (often slack) bow with a short slant stroke added as an indicatory mark; it most likely marks the place/line of drawing the bow (i.e. pulling the string), hence the basic meaning “to pull; to draw (a bow)”. A newer view takes the stroke as pointing to the bow’s curved section (弓淵) and derives “to draw” secondarily, but this remains less certain (Sun 2025).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
這條路會引你去博物館。
This road will take you to the museum.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
引起 to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse吸引 to attract; to appeal to; to fascinate引发 to lead to引导 to guide引擎 engine (loanword)指引 to guide引用 to quote; to cite引进 to recommend引领 to crane one's neck引入 to draw into引诱 to coerce (sb into doing sth bad)引种 (agriculture) to plant an introduced variety