to draw (e.g. a bow) / to pull / to stretch sth / to extend / to lengthen / to involve or implicate in / to attract / to lead / to guide / to leave / to provide evidence or justification for / old unit of distance equal to 10 丈[zhang4], one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters

= + : In the encampment, Maud Younger draws her composite bow. She wants to shoot a dinosaur bone straight across the hall.

引 character breakdown

radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 2)

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Gitta Giraffe (gu-) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the encampment's living room ((e)n3).
vertical stroke (in Chinese characters), referred to as 豎筆|竖笔[shu4 bi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a dinosaur bone. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found a gorgeous dinosaur bone (丨) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and is cracking it open to eat its bone marrow.
surname Gong
a bow (weapon) / CL:張|张[zhang1] / to bend / to arch (one's back etc)

Mnemonic symbol: a composite bow. Gitta Giraffe (gu) is shooting arrows with a composite bow (弓) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).

Characters with 引 as component

earthworm
used in 吲哚[yin3 duo3]
(interrog.)
traces (of a carriage)

Words with 引

to attract (interest, investment etc) / CL:個|个[ge4]
to seduce / to tempt
attractive force (such as gravitation) / sex appeal / attractiveness
to gather one's friends / to band together
to call up all one's associates / rent-a-crowd
human flesh search engine / a large-scale collective effort to find details about a person or event (Internet slang)
attractor (math., dynamical systems)

Sentences with 引

dà
shèng
 
 
wǒ
lái
yǐn
lù