引

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

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 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

References

• 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

Chinese

simp. and trad.		引

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 引
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

	Old Chinese
紖	*l'inʔ
矧	*hlinʔ
訠	*hlinʔ
弞	*hlinʔ, *linʔ
引	*linʔ, *lins
蚓	*linʔ
鈏	*linʔ, *lins
靷	*linʔ, *lins

Characters in the same phonetic series (引) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	引	引
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	余忍切	羊晉切
Baxter	yinX	yinH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiɪnX/	/jiɪnH/
Pan Wuyun	/jinX/	/jinH/
Shao Rongfen	/jenX/	/jenH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jinX/	/jinH/
Li Rong	/iĕnX/	/iĕnH/
Wang Li	/jĭĕnX/	/jĭĕnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ĕnX/	/i̯ĕnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǐn	yìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jan5	jan6

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	引	引
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǐn	yǐn
Middle Chinese	‹ yinX ›	‹ yinH ›
Old Chinese	/*li[n]ʔ/	/*li[n]ʔ-s/
English	draw the bow	draw the bow
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	引	引
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15306	15312
Phonetic component	引	引
Rime group	眞	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	引	𦙍
Old Chinese	/*linʔ/	/*lins/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐn (yin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁵
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): yîn / yín

  (Meixian, Guangdong): yin³

• Eastern Min (BUC): īng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ing³
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): íⁿ / ín

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ing²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶yin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǐn
    • Wade–Giles: yin³
    • Yale: yǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiin
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jan⁵
    • Yale: yáhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yîn / yín
    • Hakka Romanization System: in^ˊ / in^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yin¹ / yin³
    • Sinological IPA: /in²⁴/, /in³¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yîn / yín
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)in^ˊ / (r)in^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yin¹ / yin³
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)in²⁴/, /(j)in³¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yin³
    • Sinological IPA: /in³¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: īng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ing³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ing³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: íⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: ínn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: vie
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ĩ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ín
    • Tâi-lô: ín
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ien
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /in⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /in⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /in⁴¹/

Note:

• íⁿ - vernacular;
• ín - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ing²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: íng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶yin
    • MiniDict: yin^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦin²³/

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• Middle Chinese: yinX, yinH

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*li[n]ʔ/, /*li[n]ʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*linʔ/, /*lins/

Definitions

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")

Compounds

• 交引
• 做引線 / 做引线
• 公引 (gōngyǐn)
• 勾大引小
• 勾引 (gōuyǐn)
• 升引
• 名高引謗 / 名高引谤
• 吸引 (xīyǐn)
• 吸引力 (xīyǐnlì)
• 呼朋引伴
• 呼朋引類 / 呼朋引类
• 噴射引擎 / 喷射引擎
• 地心引力 (dìxīn yǐnlì)
• 執引 / 执引
• 外引
• 奉引
• 尋引 / 寻引
• 導引 / 导引 (dǎoyǐn)
• 導引之術 / 导引之术
• 導引大全 / 导引大全
• 導引系統 / 导引系统
• 導引胎息 / 导引胎息
• 小引 (xiǎoyǐn)
• 引人 (yǐnrén)
• 引人側目 / 引人侧目
• 引人入勝 / 引人入胜 (yǐnrénrùshèng)
• 引人注目 (yǐnrénzhùmù)
• 引人矚目 / 引人瞩目
• 引人遐思
• 引人非議 / 引人非议
• 引介 (yǐnjiè)
• 引以為傲 / 引以为傲 (yǐnyǐwéi'ào)
• 引以為戒 / 引以为戒 (yǐnyǐwéijiè)
• 引以為榮 / 引以为荣 (yǐnyǐwéiróng)
• 引以為鑑 / 引以为鉴 (yǐnyǐwéijiàn)
• 引以為鑒 / 引以为鉴 (yǐnyǐwéijiàn)
• 引以自豪
• 引信 (yǐnxìn)
• 引光奴
• 引入歧途
• 引兵 (yǐnbīng)
• 引出 (yǐnchū)
• 引分
• 引力 (yǐnlì)
• 引動 / 引动 (yǐndòng)
• 引吭
• 引吭高歌
• 引咎 (yǐnjiù)
• 引咎自責 / 引咎自责
• 引咎責躬 / 引咎责躬
• 引咎辭職 / 引咎辞职
• 引商刻羽
• 引喻失義 / 引喻失义 (yǐnyùshīyì)
• 引地
• 引嫌
• 引子 (yǐnzi)
• 引對 / 引对
• 引導 / 引导 (yǐndǎo)
• 引布
• 引年
• 引得 (yǐndé)
• 引慝
• 引手
• 引接 (yǐnjiē)
• 引據 / 引据
• 引擎 (yǐnqíng)
• 引數 / 引数 (yǐnshù)
• 引文 (yǐnwén)
• 引服
• 引枕
• 引柴 (yǐnchái)
• 引格
• 引橋 / 引桥
• 引氣 / 引气
• 引水 (yǐnshuǐ)
• 引水人 (yínshuǐrén)
• 引水入牆 / 引水入墙
• 引水權 / 引水权
• 引決 / 引决 (yǐnjué)
• 引河 (yǐnhé)
• 引流 (yǐnliú)
• 引渡 (yǐndù)
• 引港 (yǐngǎng)
• 引渡法
• 引滿 / 引满
• 引潮力
• 引火 (yǐnhuǒ)
• 引火燒身 / 引火烧身 (yǐnhuǒshāoshēn)
• 引火線 / 引火线
• 引火自焚
• 引火點 / 引火点
• 引燃 (yǐnrán)
• 引爆 (yǐnbào)
• 引狗入寨
• 引狼入室 (yǐnlángrùshì)
• 引玉之磚 / 引玉之砖 (yǐnyùzhīzhuān)
• 引產 / 引产 (yǐnchǎn)
• 引用 (yǐnyòng)
• 引申 (yǐnshēn)
• 引申義 / 引申义 (yǐnshēnyì)
• 引疾
• 引發 / 引发 (yǐnfā)
• 引發物質 / 引发物质
• 引磬
• 引票
• 引稅 / 引税
• 引種 / 引种
• 引經據典 / 引经据典 (yǐnjīngjùdiǎn)
• 引經據古 / 引经据古
• 引線 / 引线 (yǐnxiàn)
• 引線穿針 / 引线穿针
• 引繩批根 / 引绳批根
• 引繩排根 / 引绳排根
• 引而不發 / 引而不发 (yǐn'érbùfā)
• 引臂
• 引致 (yǐnzhì)
• 引航 (yǐnháng)
• 引薦 / 引荐 (yǐnjiàn)
• 引虎自衛 / 引虎自卫
• 引號 / 引号 (yǐnhào)
• 引袋
• 引見 / 引见 (yǐnjiàn)
• 引言 (yǐnyán)
• 引誘 / 引诱 (yǐnyòu)
• 引調 / 引调
• 引課 / 引课
• 引證 / 引证 (yǐnzhèng)
• 引起 (yǐnqǐ)
• 引足救經 / 引足救经
• 引路 (yǐnlù)
• 引路人
• 引路幡
• 引軍 / 引军 (yǐnjūn)
• 引述 (yǐnshù)
• 引退 (yǐntuì)
• 引逗 (yǐndòu)
• 引進 / 引进 (yǐnjìn)
• 引道
• 引邁 / 引迈
• 引避
• 引重
• 引錐刺股 / 引锥刺股
• 引領 / 引领 (yǐnlǐng)
• 引領企踵 / 引领企踵
• 引領而望 / 引领而望
• 引頸 / 引颈 (yǐnjǐng)
• 引頭 / 引头
• 引頸受戮 / 引颈受戮
• 引頸受死 / 引颈受死
• 引頸就戮 / 引颈就戮
• 引頸翹望 / 引颈翘望
• 引類呼朋 / 引类呼朋
• 引風吹火 / 引风吹火
• 引首
• 引首章
• 引騶 / 引驺
• 引鬥 / 引斗
• 引鬼上門 / 引鬼上门
• 引魂旛
• 徵引 / 征引 (zhēngyǐn)
• 扶引
• 招引 (zhāoyǐn)
• 拋磚引玉 / 抛砖引玉 (pāozhuānyǐnyù)
• 招蜂引蝶
• 指引 (zhǐyǐn)
• 接引
• 搜尋引擎 / 搜寻引擎 (sōuxún yǐnqíng)
• 援引 (yuányǐn)
• 摘引 (zhāiyǐn)
• 擢引
• 攀親引戚 / 攀亲引戚
• 救經引足 / 救经引足
• 文引
• 旁徵博引 / 旁征博引 (pángzhēngbóyǐn)
• 日引月長 / 日引月长
• 曠日引久 / 旷日引久
• 曠日引月 / 旷日引月
• 曳引機 / 曳引机
• 曳引車 / 曳引车
• 東引 / 东引 (Dōngyǐn)
• 款引
• 歸向導引 / 归向导引
• 汲引
• 汽油引擎
• 燒紙引鬼 / 烧纸引鬼
• 牽引 / 牵引 (qiānyǐn)
• 牽引機 / 牵引机
• 牽引療法 / 牵引疗法
• 王引之
• 發引 / 发引
• 萬有引力 / 万有引力 (wànyǒu yǐnlì)
• 稱引 / 称引 (chēngyǐn)
• 穿壁引光
• 穿針引線 / 穿针引线 (chuānzhēnyǐnxiàn)
• 箜篌引
• 索引 (suǒyǐn)
• 網路索引 / 网路索引
• 翹足引領 / 翘足引领
• 翹首引領 / 翘首引领
• 茶引
• 薦引 / 荐引
• 藥引子 / 药引子 (yàoyǐnzi)
• 虛引猿泣 / 虚引猿泣
• 誘引 / 诱引 (yòuyǐn)
• 調引 / 调引
• 證引 / 证引
• 資料索引 / 资料索引
• 超然自引
• 超然遠引 / 超然远引
• 路引
• 辟引
• 逗引 (dòuyǐn)
• 道引
• 遠引曲喻 / 远引曲喻
• 遠引深潛 / 远引深潜
• 鈔引 / 钞引
• 錢引 / 钱引
• 霹靂引 / 霹雳引
• 高翔遠引 / 高翔远引
• 高蹈遠引 / 高蹈远引
• 髮引千鈞 / 发引千钧
• 鬥引 / 斗引
• 鹽引 / 盐引

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (引):

• → Japanese: 引(いん) (in)
• → Korean: 인(引) (in)
• → Vietnamese: dẫn (引)

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Compare with Zhangzhou Hokkien 咉 (ńg), such as used in 咉公 (ńg-kong), and Hokkien 俺 (án) as per Douglas (1873).”

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ín

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Jinjiang)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ín
    • Tâi-lô: ín
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ien
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /in⁵⁵⁴/

Definitions

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

Related terms

• 俺 (án)
• 咉 (ńg)

Etymology 3

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.

Further reading

• 晋江市方言志‎, (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 (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, Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018, →ISBN
• “Entry #11126”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• “引”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #791”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “引”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 285.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 引

引

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. pull
2. tug
3. admit

Readings

• 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)

Compounds

• 割(わり)引(びき) (waribiki)

Antonyms

• 斥 (“repulse”)
• 押 (“push”)

Derived terms

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

Etymology

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

From Middle Chinese 引 (MC yinX|yinH).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

引(いん) • (in) 

1. the preface to a book; introduction; foreword

Affix

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

Derived terms

• 引(いん)見(けん) (inken)
• 引(いん)水(すい) (insui)
• 引(いん)責(せき) (inseki)
• 引(いん)導(どう) (indō)
• 引(いん)退(たい) (intai)
• 引(いん)用(よう) (in'yō)
• 引(いん)力(りょく) (inryoku)
• 延(えん)引(いん) (en'in)
• 我(が)田(でん)引(いん)水(すい) (gaden'insui)
• 吸(きゅう)引(いん) (kyūin)
• 牽(けん)引(いん) (ken'in)
• 拘(こう)引(いん) (kōin)
• 勾(こう)引(いん) (kōin)
• 強(ごう)引(いん) (gōin)
• 索(さく)引(いん) (sakuin)
• 承(しょう)引(いん) (shōin)
• 導(どう)引(いん) (dōin)
• 誘(ゆう)引(いん) (yūin)

References

1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

引 (eumhun 끌 인 (kkeul in))

1. hanja form^? of 인 (“pull”)

Compounds

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

Vietnamese

Han character

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

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