Entry
  1. Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb

    traction; towing; hauling; pulling; drawing

  2. driving (e.g. economic growth)

Also written けん引【けんいん】

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Characters in this word

2
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

pull, tug, drag, lead by hand

Kun
ひ.く
On
ケン
Strokes
11
Taught
Jinmeiyō
Radical
cow

Built from

Dictionary and index codes (15)
CodeReference
2-2-9SKIP code
2j9.3The Kanji Dictionary
0050.3Four corner code
727dUnicode hex code
1-24-03JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
320Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
3544New Nelson (John Haig)
2621Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1816Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
2550Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2607Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2028Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
20025Morohashi
qian1Pinyin reading
gyeonKorean reading
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

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

Kun
ひ.くひ.ける
On
イン
Strokes
4
Taught
Grade 2
JLPT
N3
Frequency
218 of 2500
Radical
bow
WaniKani
Level 3

Built from

Used in names as

いなひきひけびき

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
1-3-1SKIP code
3h1.1The Kanji Dictionary
1220.0Four corner code
3554deroo
5f15Unicode hex code
1-16-90JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
1562Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1681New Nelson (John Haig)
181New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
207Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
133Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
160Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1232Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1318Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
238A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
144Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
271Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
9699Morohashi
77A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
216Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
216Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
156sakade
167Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
81henshall3
87Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
263crowley
257Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.2busy_people
605Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1240Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
yin3Pinyin reading
inKorean reading
n3JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
3WaniKani level