牵连
qiān​lián

implicate

牵连 (牽連) qiān​lián
implicate verb
to involve in a crime, scandal, or trouble; to be implicated

由于证据不足，他没有被这起案件牵连。

yóu​yú zhèng​jù bù​zú, tā méi​yǒu bèi zhè qǐ àn​jiàn qiān​lián.

Due to insufficient evidence, he was not implicated in the case.

link verb
to link together; to be related or connected

这两件事之间有着复杂的牵连。

zhè liǎng jiàn shì zhī​jiān yǒu zhe fù​zá de qiān​lián.

There is a complex connection between these two matters.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
6.65 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
3.16 per million

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)