牵

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

"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]

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

ox / cow / bull / CL:條|条[tiao2],頭|头[tou2] / newton (abbr. for 牛頓|牛顿[niu2 dun4]) / (slang) awesome

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

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 lead (an animal by the head) / to take the lead / to coordinate (a combined operation) / to mediate / a go-between (e.g. marriage broker)

motive force / traction

to make an irrelevant comparison or interpretation (idiom)

to concede / to give up

tractor

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

hand in hand

to sack the home and lead off the cattle (proverb) / to strip of everything

anchor lift (ski-lift)

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

lit. pull one hair and the whole body moves / fig. a slight change will affect everything else / the butterfly effect