to draw (water)

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  1. (obsolete) to guide; to assist
  2. (obsolete) to nominate; to recommend a person
  3. a surname
  4. to draw water from a well
  5. to guide; to assist
  6. to nominate; to recommend a person
  7. used in 汲取 (jíqǔ, “to draw (from a lesson, experience, etc.)”)
  8. used in 汲汲 (jíjí)

Wiktionary

  1. 取水
  2. 汉代

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吸住 zhù
  1. to draw (towards)
  2. to be drawn to
  3. to be sucked in
我覺得自己好像被你的眼睛吸住了。

I feel like I'm being drawn into your eyes.

Source: Tatoeba

yǐn
  1. to draw (e.g. a bow)
  2. to pull
  3. to stretch sth
  4. to extend
  5. to lengthen
  6. to involve or implicate in
  7. to attract
  8. to lead
  9. to guide
  10. to leave
  11. to provide evidence or justification for
  12. old unit of distance equal to 10 zhàng, one-thirtieth of a km or 33.33 meters
這條路會引你去博物館。

This road will take you to the museum.

Source: Tatoeba

打成平手 chéngpíngshǒu
  1. to draw (a competition)
  2. to fight to a standstill
拉伸 shēn
  1. to draw
  2. to stretch
拉伸是運動前後不可忽略的重要環節。

Stretching is an important part of exercise that should not be ignored before and after workouts.

Source: Tatoeba

描画 miáohuà
  1. to draw
  2. to describe
吸取
  1. to absorb
  2. to draw (a lesson, insight etc)
  3. to assimilate
红树林吸取二氧化碳比地球上其他树木都要多,因为它们具有很大的地下根部结构。

Mangroves sequester more carbon than any other trees on Earth because they have quite a large underground root structure.

Source: Tatoeba

wǎn
  1. to pull
  2. to draw (a cart or a bow)
  3. to roll up
  4. to coil
  5. to carry on the arm
  6. to lament the dead
  7. (fig.) to pull against
  8. to recover
我看见他们胳膊挽着胳膊地走路。

I saw them walking arm in arm.

Source: Tatoeba

chè
  1. to pull
  2. to draw
  3. to pull back
  4. to withdraw
  5. to flash past
huì
  1. multicolor
  2. to draw
wǎn
  1. variant of wǎn
  2. to draw (a cart)
  3. to lament the dead
我看见他们胳膊挽着胳膊地走路。

I saw them walking arm in arm.

Source: Tatoeba

jià
  1. to harness
  2. to draw (a cart etc)
  3. to drive
  4. to pilot
  5. to sail
  6. to ride
  7. your good self
  8. prefixed word denoting respect (polite 敬辞 jìng)
我们俩都驾跑车。

We both drive sports cars.

Source: Tatoeba

抽取 chōu
  1. to extract
  2. to remove
  3. to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc)
huà
  1. to draw; to paint
  2. to draw (a line) (variant of huà)
  3. stroke of a Chinese character (variant of huà)
  4. (calligraphy) horizontal stroke (variant of huà)

classifiers: ,

誰畫的?

Who drew it?

Source: Tatoeba

不分胜负 fēnshèng
  1. unable to determine victory or defeat (idiom); evenly matched
  2. to come out even
  3. to tie
  4. to draw
  1. to pull
  2. to play (a bowed instrument)
  3. to drag
  4. to draw
  5. to chat
  6. (coll.) to empty one's bowels
拉雅迷路了。

Raya got lost.

Source: Tatoeba

作出 zuòchū
  1. to put out
  2. to come up with
  3. to make (a choice, decision, proposal, response, comment etc)
  4. to issue (a permit, statement, explanation, apology, reassurance to the public etc)
  5. to draw (conclusion)
  6. to deliver (speech, judgment)
  7. to devise (explanation)
  8. to extract
你怎样作出的解释?

How do you account for that?

Source: Tatoeba

huà
  1. to delimit
  2. to transfer
  3. to assign
  4. to plan
  5. to draw (a line)
  6. stroke of a Chinese character
他劃了一根火柴。

He struck a match.

Source: Tatoeba

píng
  1. flat
  2. level
  3. equal
  4. to tie (make the same score)
  5. to draw (score)
  6. calm
  7. peaceful
  8. abbr. for 平声 píngshēng
他們以為地球是平的。

They believed that the earth was flat.

Source: Tatoeba