Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N3

218 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 4

Meaning: pull, tug, jerk, admit, install, quote, refer to

Kunyomi: ひ.く ひ.ける

Onyomi: イン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: ゆみへん

Meaning: bow

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

力(いんりょく)   gravity

な(ごういんな)   pushy

用する(いんようする)   quote

退する(いんたいする)   retire

く(ひく)   pull

き出し(ひきだし)   drawer

っ越し(ひっこし)   moving (e.g. residence)

Onyomi Examples

退 インタイ retirement

インセキ taking responsibility

ユウイン enticement, inducement, attraction

キュウイン absorption, suction, aspiration, attraction, draw

Kunyomi Examples

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 lessen, to subside, to ebb, to go down (e.g. of swelling), to resign, to retire, to quit

く手 ひくて admirer, inducer

ける ひける to close, to be over, to break up (e.g. school), to lose one's nerve, to feel daunted