牵 牽
牵牽 in English
- to lead along / to pull (an animal on a tether) / (bound form) to involve / to draw in
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 牽, the traditional character: 牵 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 6 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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我不想被牵扯到这件事里。
I don't want to be involved in that matter.
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我们牵过一次手。
We held hands, once.
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我可以牵着你的手吗？
May I hold your hand?
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这可能听起来牵强，但却是个真实的问题。
It might sound far-fetched, but this is a real problem.