to lead along / to pull (an animal on a tether) / (bound form) to involve / to draw in

= + + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) likes surfing, but there is no water in front of the anthill (an1). She doesn't care though, she just has the robot (大) and the bull (牛) pull her on a tether (牵) while she is surfing on a cooking top (冖).

牽 character breakdown

"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a cooking top. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a cooking top (冖) instead.
surname Niu
ox / cow / bull / CL:條|条[tiao2],頭|头[tou2] / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿[niu2 dun4]) / (slang) awesome

= 𠂉 + : A bull has been locked to a big cross in the outhouse's kitchen, and Nefertiti has the key. She promises to free the bull if he pledges allegiance to her leadership.
black / mysterious

= + : Xu Xian (xu) noticed that there is more and more black and mysterious (玄) lava (玄) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). To find out where the lava is coming from he draws tarot cards out of a beret (亠). He draws only aces (幺) though, and he doesn't really know how to interpret those.

Characters with 牽 as component

boatman's tow-rope

Words with 牽

to control / to curb / to restrict / to impede / to pin down (enemy troops)
far-fetched / implausible (chain of reasoning)
to pull / to draw (a cart) / to tow
to pull; to draw (a cart); to tow
to affect / to produce a change in sth
to make an irrelevant comparison or interpretation (idiom)
motive force / traction
to concede / to give up
lit. pull one hair and the whole body moves / fig. a slight change will affect everything else / the butterfly effect
to worry / concerned
tractor unit; tractor truck; prime mover
see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[bie2 ren5 qian1 lü2 ni3 ba2 jue2 zi5]
lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom) / fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame
to sack the home and lead off the cattle (proverb) / to strip of everything
restrained / confined
lit. to see whether it's a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk (idiom) / fig. the proof of the pudding is in the eating / to show what one is made of
to have no cares / to be carefree

Sentences with 牽

牽 currently does not appear in any sentence.