牵 (qiān) means Pull (involve - influence). Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
他 牵 着孩子的手过马路。
Tā qiānzhe háizi de shǒu guò mǎlù.
He led the child by the hand across the road.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 牵
老人 牵 着一头牛慢慢走过。
Lǎorén qiānzhe yì tóu niú mànmàn zǒu guò.
The old man walked slowly past leading an ox.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 牵
他不想被 牵 扯进去。
Tā bù xiǎng bèi qiānchě jìnqù.
He does not want to get dragged into it.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 牵扯
不能让无辜的人受 牵 连。
Bù néng ràng wúgū de rén shòu qiānlián.
Innocent people must not be dragged in.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 无辜
这件事 牵 扯到好几个部门。
Zhè jiàn shì qiānchě dào hǎojǐ ge bùmén.
This matter involves several departments.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 牵扯
琐事 牵 制了他大量的精力。
Suǒshì qiānzhì le tā dàliàng de jīnglì.
Trivial matters have tied up a great deal of his energy.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 牵制
这支部队 牵 制了对方的主力。
Zhè zhī bùduì qiānzhì le duìfāng de zhǔlì.
This unit tied down the enemy's main force.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 牵制
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Words that contain 牵
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Questions about 牵
How is 牵 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 牵 (qiān, "Pull (involve - influence)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 牵 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 牵 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 牵 an HSK word?
Yes — 牵 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 牵?
The dictionary page for 牵 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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