拽
yè , zhuāi , zhuǎi , zhuài · HSK 7
to drag
✋ 拽 = 扌 hand + 曳 (drag/trail) = a hand that hauls and drags
The 扌 hand radical sits beside 曳 (yè, to drag along), so the character literally means dragging or hauling by hand. The zhuāi/zhuài readings carry the throw and fling senses.
拽 — hand radical 扌 + 曳 yè (drag)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning, since the word involves pulling or yanking with the hand, while 曳 (yè, 'to drag') supplies both sound and a reinforcing sense of dragging. Over time it picked up colloquial readings like zhuài 'to yank' and zhuǎi 'to waddle'.