拖
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to drag; to tow; to trail; to hang down; to mop (the floor); to delay; to drag on
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 手 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 拖
- Common rank
- #1,093
- Unicode
- U+62D6
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
drag · Heisig RSH #1859
fingers + reclining + scorpion
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 拖
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拖人下水 | lit. to pull sb into the water; fig. to involve sb in a messy business; to get sb into tro… | |
| 拖家带口 | (idiom) to take one's whole family along; to have a family in tow; to be tied down by fami… | |
| 阿拖品化 | atropinization | |
| 拖拉机 | tractor; CL:臺|台[tai2] | |
| 拖下水 | lit. to pull sb into the water; to involve sb in a messy business; to get sb into trouble | |
| 拖儿带女 | supporting a wife and children; dragged down by having a family to feed | |
| 拖车头 | trailer truck | |
| 拖动力 | motive force; traction | |
| 布拖县 | Butuo, a county in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2… | |
| 人字拖 | flip-flops (abbr. for 人字拖鞋[ren2 zi4 tuo1 xie2]) | |
| 连拖带拉 | pushing and pulling (idiom) | |
| 拖地板 | to mop the floor | |
| 拖尾巴 | to obstruct; to be a drag on sb; to delay finishing off a job | |
| 人字拖鞋 | flip-flops; flip-flop sandals; thongs; see also 人字拖[ren2 zi4 tuo1] | |
| 拖泥带水 | (idiom) muddy and wet; (idiom) (of speech, writing etc) slovenly; sloppy; (of actions) ind… | |
| 拖地 | to mop the floor; (of a gown etc) to trail on the ground; full-length | |
| 拖拉 | to drag along; to haul; (fig.) to procrastinate; shilly-shallying; sluggish; (computing) d… | |
| 拖拖拉拉 | to procrastinate | |
| 拖动 | to drag; to tow; (computing) to drag (mouse operation) | |
| 拖行 | to drag; to tow |