引
yǐn HSK4

to pull

引 yǐn
to cause verb
to cause; to provoke; to attract or draw in

这引出了一个问题：人们真正需要多少睡眠？

zhè yǐn chū le yī​ge wèn​tí: rén​men zhēn​zhèng xū​yào duō​shao shuì​mián?

This begs the question: How much sleep do people really need?

to lead verb
to lead; to guide; to direct

我把他直接引到她这来了。

wǒ bǎ tā zhí​jiē yǐn dào tā zhè lái le.

I led him straight to her.

to cite verbnoun
to cite; to quote; to provide evidence or justification for
to recommend verbparticle
to recommend or introduce someone for a position or role
to stretch noun
to draw (a bow); to pull; to stretch or lengthen something
to withdraw
to withdraw; to retreat; to leave or move away from
[introduction]
an introduction or preface to a piece of writing
yin
(bound form) a unit of distance equal to 10 丈 zhàng, or approximately 33.3 meters; also a modern metric unit of 100 meters
surname
a Chinese surname
to take responsibility
to take responsibility for a mistake; to admit blame
permit
(archaic) an official permit or certificate; a form of paper money used in the Song dynasty

Cross-References

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Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
479th most common 443.1 per million
Movie subtitles
669th most common 198.5 per million appears in 63% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
26.9 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
38.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
4
Unicode
U+5F15

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)