曵 (yì)
1. A variant character for "曳".
2. To drag or pull. "曳" has the meaning of "to pull lightly". — "Shuowen Jiezi" (说文).
- "To pull and shake" implies the act of binding and dragging.
3. To wear. "When a child has clothes, it should not drag or hang." — "Poems of Tang Feng" (诗·唐风).
- Kong Yingda's commentary: "Both '娄' and '曳' concern the matter of wearing clothes."
4. To lead. "Sunzi ordered Zhangzi to lead the soldiers to confront the Yan troops." — "Leyi Tu Qi Pinghua" (乐毅图齐平话).
5. To be in a difficult situation, exhausted. "Though poor, one does not become frustrated; though lowly, one does not become resentful; even when the years are tired and exhausted, one still has the wind of the famous scholars." — "Book of the Later Han" (后汉书).