HSK 6 · Verbs

牵扯 qiānchě “to involve” in Chinese

Traditional 牽扯

What 牵扯 means

  1. to involve
  2. to implicate
  3. to drag in
  4. to be interrelated

How to say 牵扯

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale牵qiān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale扯chě3rd tone, dipping

牵扯 in a sentence

  1. 我没想要让你牵扯进来。

    Wǒ méi xiǎngyào ràng nǐ qiānchě jìnlái.

    I didn’t mean to drag you into this.

    Sentence #13138195 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 我不想被牵扯到这件事里。

    Wǒ bùxiǎng bèi qiānchě dào zhè jiàn shì lǐ.

    I don’t want to get involved in this matter.

    Sentence #787633 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 牵扯 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 牵 (qiān) with each of its parts in a different colour
牵qiānto lead along
  • 大big · dà
  • 冖cover · mì
  • 牛cow · niú
The character 扯 (chě) with each of its parts in a different colour
扯chěto pull
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 止stop · zhǐSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 止 (zhǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with chě.

How to write 牵扯

牵 9 strokes · 扯 7 strokes

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牵扯 (qiānchě) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 牵扯 (qiānchě). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 牵扯

Words with 牵

牵qiān · to lead (by the hand or a rope)牵制qiānzhì · to contain

More words: Common Verbs

铺pū · to spread普及pǔjí · to popularise掐qiā · to pinch牵qiān · to lead (by the hand or a rope)抢救qiǎngjiù · to rescue强迫qiǎngpò · to force迁就qiānjiù · to accommodate迁徙qiānxǐ · to migrate

FAQs

牵扯 (qiānchě) means “to involve” or “to implicate”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it qiānchě: qiān with a 1st tone, then chě with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 牵扯 is written 牽扯. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type qianche with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 牵扯 from the suggestions. Typing qianche into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
牵扯 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.