引

引 U+5F15, 引 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F15 ← 弔 [U+5F14] CJK Unified Ideographs 弖 → [U+5F16]

Stroke order

引 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 弓中 (NL), four-corner 1220₀, composition ⿰弓丨)

• 𠇁, 吲, 𡛅, 𢏄, 𢪉, 𪵰, 𣏖, 䏖, 𫸬, 䀕, 矧, 粌, 紖(纼), 𦙢, 蚓, 𠒒, 訠, 𮚵, 𧿯, 𨈧, 𮝅, 鈏, 靷, 𮡕, 𫙒
• 𭚭, 𫸷, 𠀓, 𬻏, 𡗵, 䒡, 䇙, 㽼

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 356, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9699
• Dae Jaweon: page 672, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 988, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5F15

simp. and trad.		引

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 弓 (“bow”) + 丨 (“line”) – the line radical represents a bow string which is pulled.

引

1. to pull, draw out, attract
2. to stretch
3. to lead
4. to induce
5. to recommend (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. to reference, to quote
7. to leave
8. (music) prelude
9. (archaic) sales permit

(Can we add an example for this sense?) (particularly for the sense " to lead")

引

1. (Quanzhou Hokkien, honorific) Prefix for kinship terms.

   引公 [Hokkien]  ―  ín-kong [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  grandpa

   引媽／引妈 [Hokkien]  ―  ín-má [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  grandma

• 俺 (án)
• 咉 (ńg)

For pronunciation and definitions of 引 – see 蚓 (“earthworm”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 蚓).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

• 晋江市方言志‎^[1], (Can we date this quote?), page 38 (PDF) / 106 (Book)
• Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “ín (Cn.)”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 172; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 172
• Dictionario Hispánico-Sinicum‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish, Hokkien, and Classical Mandarin), kept as Vocabulario Español-Chino con caracteres chinos (TOMO 215) in the University of Santo Tomás Archives, Manila: Dominican Order of Preachers, 1626-1642, page 23/10 & 36/18 & 488/463 & 378/356; republished as Lee, Fabio Yuchung (李毓中), Chen, Tsung-jen (陳宗仁), José, Regalado Trota, Caño, José Luis Ortigosa, editors, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I: Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum‎^[3], Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. pull
2. tug
3. admit

• Go-on: いん (in, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: いん (in, Jōyō)
• Kun: ひく (hiku, 引く, Jōyō)、ひける (hikeru, 引ける, Jōyō)
• Nanori: のぶ (nobu)、ひき (hiki)、ひさ (hisa)

• 割(わり)引(びき) (waribiki)

• 斥 (“repulse”)
• 押 (“push”)

• 敷(しき)引(び)き (shikibiki)
• 引(ひ)く (hiku)
• 引(ひ)っ掻(か)く (hikkaku)

Kanji in this term
引
いん Grade: 2
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 引 (MC yinX|yinH).

• (Tokyo) いん [íꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ĩɴ]

引(いん) • (in) 

1. the preface to a book; introduction; foreword

引(いん) • (in) 

1. pull; draw out; stretch
2. lead; induce
3. bear; undertake; accept (Can we add an example for this sense?) (particularly for "accept")
4. quote; reference
5. leave

引 (eumhun 끌 인 (kkeul in))

1. hanja form^? of 인 (“pull”)

• 견인차 (牽引車, gyeonincha, “tow truck”)
• 유인 (誘引, yuin, “attraction”)

引: Hán Nôm readings: dẫn, dợn, giỡn, dận, giận

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