牵
qiān HSK6

drag

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approved by Prismcool · Dec 26, 2025, 01:30 AM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Dec 26, 2025, 01:30 AM

tweaked a few things

Changed fields: hint, components, customSources

Depicts a person (人) leading an ox (牛) by the nose (自). 人 was later reanalyzed as 大.

Components

大
大 Iconic component

Depicts a person. Later reanalyzed as 大.

自
自 Iconic component
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 自 than it was in ancient scripts.
牛
牛 Iconic component

Sources

Character origin
季旭昇《說文新證》p.93-94林志強《《文源》評注》p.312
Readings & variants
Unicode