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Tug I Crown 牽 ケン ひ.く Pull Jerk

Kanji
Onyomi ケン
Kunyomi ひ.く
English pull, tug, jerk, admit, install, quote, refer to
JLPT Level 0
Jouyou Grade S+
Components 玄: mysterious; occultness
牛: cow
Traditional Form (none)
Keyword tug
Koohii Story 1 I tugged at the the cow's udder but mysteriously no milk came out. I then noticed the crown of his head. It was a bull!
Koohii Story 2 "Mysterious, crown, cow: In Kazad-dum, Gandalf had found a mysterious crown. It really helped his magic, but when they came back to Rivendell, he had become unresistable to the cows (small side-effect). He tried to tug the crown off, but did not succeed..."
RTK Index 2550

Tags: jlpt.n0, shouldsuspend, grades+, jinmeiyou

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