Jisho

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14 strokes (also 15)
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
type of tortoise used for divination
On:
サイ
2319 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cai4
Korean:
chae, sal

Spanish

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French

31818X Morohashi
5170 New Nelson (John Haig)
3k11.9 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-11 SKIP code
2-4-11 SKIP code
4490.1 Four corner code
1-72-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8521 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
cow 牛 (牜)
Parts:
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On reading compounds

  • 牽引 【ケンイン】 traction, towing, hauling, pulling, drawing, driving (e.g. economic growth)
  • 牽引車 【ケンインシャ】 tractor, towing vehicle, driving force, leading role

Kun reading compounds

  • 引く 【ひく】 to pull, to tug, to lead (e.g. a horse), to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.), to attract (e.g. interest), to draw back (e.g. one's hand), to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.), to pull in, to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.), to draw (a line, plan, etc.), to catch (a cold), to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument), to look up (in a dictionary, phone book, etc.), to consult, to check, to haul, to pull (vehicles), to subtract, to deduct, to recede, to ebb, to fade, to be descend from, to inherit (a characteristic), to quote, to cite, to raise (as evidence), to lay on (electricity, gas, etc.), to install (e.g. a telephone), to supply (e.g. water), to hold (e.g. a note), to apply (e.g. lipstick), to oil (e.g. a pan), to wax (e.g. a floor), to move back, to draw back, to recede, to fall back, to retreat, to lessen, to subside, to ebb, to go down (e.g. of swelling), to resign, to retire, to quit

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qian1
Korean:
gyeon

Spanish

Portuguese

French

320 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2028 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2621 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1816 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
20025 Morohashi
3544 New Nelson (John Haig)
2550 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2607 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2j9.3 The Kanji Dictionary
2-2-9 SKIP code
0050.3 Four corner code
1-24-03 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
727d Unicode hex code