引
Pull
| on’yomi | kun’yomi | Radicals |
|---|---|---|
| n/i | ひ.く | 弓 + ｜ |
Meaning: Pull
If you put a stick on a spring, and then pull it, what would happen?
Go ahead and imagine the result, but be sure to pull on it really hard because the spring you have is thick and good quality. When you let go, what happens? Does it hit someone? Does it cause some kind of weird disaster? I’ll leave that up to you – the important thing is you’re pulling on the stick against the spring to do something interesting with it.
Reading: n/i
There’s no on’yomi for this kanji that you have to learn, meaning you can just be on your merry way towards the vocab now.
Vocabulary
Take a look at the common words. Of course, they all use the kun’yomi. The on’yomi is fairly useless, especially right now.
a 引く（ひく）＝ to pull
- Meaning: The meaning is the same, but this is the verb form. How can you tell? It ends with an う sound (the く)
- Reading: The reading is the kun’yomi, because it has some hiragana sticking out.
a 引き分け（ひきわけ）＝ draw / tie (like in a competition)
- Combo: 引き (pull) + 分け (separate)
- Meaning: If you pull and separate something, right in the middle (think of a tug o’ war, or something) then you get a tie or draw in the competition.
- Reading: These are the two kun’yomi readings for these two kanji – so if you’ve learned the things before this, then you should be able to figure out the readings for this vocab as well.