Kanji1 / 11
牽 kanji
pull, tug, drag, lead by hand
- JLPT level
- Not on the lists
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Jinmeiyō (names)
On readings
ケン
Kun readings
ひく
Words with 牽
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —牽引traction; towing; hauling; pulling; drawing; driving (e.g. economic growth)
- —牽強distortion of facts
- —牽制check; keeping in check; restraint; curbing; reining in; discouraging (from doing); containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; feint operation; show of force; pickoff throw; holding (a runner) on base
- —牽束restraint; being exclusively absorbed in something
- —牽連related to
- —牽牛Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
- —牽引車tractor; towing vehicle; driving force; leading role
- —牽引力pulling power
- —牽制球pickoff throw; pickoff attempt
- —牽牛星Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
- —牽引役leading force; driving force; leader
- —牽牛子morning glory seeds (medicinal use)
- —牽連犯implicated offense (where the means or result constitutes a separate offense); connected offense
- —牽強付会strained (argument, interpretation, etc.); farfetched (theory, view, etc.); forced; laboured; twisted (reasoning)
- —牽引療法traction therapy
- —牽制作戦diversionary operations
- —黄斑牽引macular traction
- —硝子体黄斑牽引症候群vitreomacular traction syndrome
- —牽強附会strained (argument, interpretation, etc.); farfetched (theory, view, etc.); forced; laboured; twisted (reasoning)