牽

Meaning

牽 centers on applying force to move something along: pulling, tugging, dragging, or leading by hand.

• 牽引けんいん

  traction; towing; hauling; pulling; drawing

• 牽制けんせい

  check; keeping in check; restraint; curbing; reining in; discouraging (from doing)

• 牽制作戦けんせいさくせん

  diversionary operations

• 牽制球けんせいきゅう

  pickoff throw; pickoff attempt

• 牽引力けんいんりょく

  pulling power

• 牽引役けんいんやく

  leading force; driving force; leader

• 牽引療法けんいんりょうほう

  traction therapy

• 牽引車けんいんしゃ

  tractor; towing vehicle

• 牽強けんきょう

  distortion of facts

• 牽強付会けんきょうふかい

  strained (argument, interpretation, etc.); farfetched (theory, view, etc.); forced; laboured; twisted (reasoning)

• 牽束けんそく

  restraint; being exclusively absorbed in something

• 牽牛けんぎゅう

  Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae

• 牽牛子けんごし

  morning glory seeds (medicinal use)

• 牽牛星けんぎゅうせい

  Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae

• 牽連けんれん

  related to

• 牽連犯けんれんはん

  implicated offense (where the means or result constitutes a separate offense); connected offense

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