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CHINESE CHARACTER
- Numbered pinyin
- qian1
- English meanings
- lead along (by holding hand/halter/etc.), pull, involve, implicate
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BUILDING BLOCKS
Structure & components
Top–bottom structure
Top–bottom arrangement: top 大; bottom (Top–bottom arrangement: top 冖; bottom 牛.).
This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.
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Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.
Qian (heaven trigram)
front
thousand
moat; trench
inlay; embed
yawn
apology
easy
dive; latent
sign
euryale; starch
pious; sincere
modest; humble
blame; condemn
move
send; dispatch
sum
pliers; clamp
lead (chemistry)
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Related words
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- 牵制
- 牵头
- 牵扯
- 牵挂
- 牵涉