He was attracted to the woman.
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吸引
xī yǐn
HSK 3.0 · 4HSK 2.0 · 4
Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
xī yǐn · kap1 jan5 (Jyutping)
- to attract; to appeal to; to fascinate
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Character breakdown
吸
引
- Meaning
- to pull, draw out, attract; to stretch
- Radical
- 弓
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- ⿰弓丨
- Cangjie
- NL
- Four-corner
- 1220.0
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
I think Mary is very attractive.
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