拿人

nárén
  1. making things awkward
  2. to cause difficulties
  3. to exert influence
  4. to attract

CEDICT

  1. 拘捕人犯。
  2. 要胁人、刁难人。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

=1 拿 ná old variant of 拿 ná
=1 拿 ná variant of 拿 ná
=1 拿 ná
  1. to hold
  2. to seize
  3. to catch
  4. to apprehend
  5. to take
  6. (used in the same way as 把 bǎ: to mark the following noun as a direct object)
2 人 rén person; people

classifiers: 個, 位

Containing this entry

吃人家的嘴软，拿人家的手短 chīrénjiādezuǐruǎn,nárénjiādeshǒuduǎn
  1. lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom)
  2. fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted

Related entries

勾 gōu
  1. to attract
  2. to arouse
  3. to tick
  4. to strike out
  5. to delineate
  6. to collude
  7. variant of 钩 gōu, hook
孩子的新毛衣上勾了一个洞。

The child has picked a hole in his new jumper.

Source: Tatoeba

招来 zhāolái
  1. to attract
  2. to incur
招引 zhāoyǐn to attract
撩人 liáorén
  1. to attract
  2. to titillate
惹人 rěrén
  1. to provoke (esp. annoyance, disgust etc)
  2. to offend
  3. to attract (attention)
無論她去哪裡，她都是惹人喜愛的。

Wherever she goes, she is well liked.

Source: Tatoeba

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