引きずる
ひきずる · hikizuru · JLPT N1 · verb-godan
to drag along
🧳 引 (pull) + ずる (drag on): 'hiki' = pull, 'zuru' = slide along the ground, so it means drag something along behind you.
Sounds like 'he key-zoo-ru': a key pulled along a zoo floor. Hiki (引き) is pull; zuru (ずる) is the sliding motion. Prolonging a meeting drags it along too.
引 — bow 弓 + vertical stroke 丨
A compound ideograph showing a bow 弓 with a vertical line 丨 representing the drawn bowstring. The original meaning was 'to draw a bow,' which extended to 'pull,' 'lead,' 'guide,' and 'cite.' The vertical stroke depicts the action of pulling the string back.