拴 (shuān): to tie up
拴 (shuān) is a Chinese character meaning “to tie up.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 全 (phonetic). It ranks #2834 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 拴 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to tie up
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
拴 appears in 1 compound words: 100 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 拴 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
拴照镜子,整理一下自己的仪容。
shuān zhào jìng zǐ , zhěng lǐ yī xià zì jǐ de yí róng .
Check your reflection in the mirror and tidy up your appearance.
你可以把它挂在钥匙扣上,用挂绳拴在背包上,或者直接套在手腕上。
nǐ kě yǐ bǎ tā guà zài yuè chí kòu shàng , yòng guà shéng shuān zài bèi bāo shàng , huò zhě zhí jiē tào zài shǒu wàn shàng .
You can attach it to a keychain, strap it to your backpack with a lanyard, or simply slip it onto your wrist.
原本被物理介质牢牢拴在客厅电视柜上的老游戏,一下子长出了能到处跑的“数字腿”。
yuán běn bèi wù lǐ jiè zhì láo láo shuān zài kè tīng diàn shì guì shàng de lǎo yóu xì , yī xià zǐ cháng chū le néng dào chǔ pǎo de shǔ zì tuǐ .
Old games, which were once firmly tethered to the TV stand in the living room by physical media, suddenly sprouted “digital legs” that allowed them to roam freely.
我想你也知道那马儿背后是谁被拴住手脚被拖着满地滚。
wǒ xiǎng nǐ yě zhī dào nà mǎ ér bèi hòu shì shéi bèi shuān zhù shǒu jiǎo bèi tuō zhe mǎn dì gǔn .
I think you know who’s tied up behind that horse, being dragged along the ground.
汤姆把线拴在了风筝上。
Tāngmǔ bǎ xiàn shuān zài le fēngzhēng shàng.
Tom attached the string to the kite.
Character Family
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