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抽

chōu

HSK 4 Character

What 抽 means

1. to draw out; to pull out from in between
2. to remove part of the whole
3. to inhale (esp. smoke)
4. (of fabric etc) to shrink
5. (of certain plants) to sprout; to bud
6. to whip; to thrash
7. classifier for sheets (of tissues, wet wipes etc)

Example sentences

• 请抽烟!
  Please smoke!
• 我不抽烟。
  I don't smoke.
• 她在抽烟。
  She's smoking.
• 把抽屉清空。
  Bǎ chōuti qīngkōng.
  Empty the drawer of its contents.
• 你抽不抽烟？
  Do you smoke?
• 她正在抽泣。
  She was sobbing.

Words starting with 抽

• 抽烟chōu yānto smoke (tobacco)
• 抽屉chōu tidrawer
• 抽象chōu xiàngabstract; abstraction
• 抽空chōu kòngto find the time to do sth
• 抽出chōu chūto take out; to extract
• 抽搐chōu chùto twitch
• 抽泣chōu qìto sob spasmodically
• 抽奖chōu jiǎngto draw a prize; a lottery; a raffle
• 抽签chōu qiānto perform divination with sticks; to draw lots; a ballot (in share dealing)
• 抽查chōu chárandom inspection; to do a spot check
• 抽筋chōu jīncramp; charley horse; to pull a tendon
• 抽调chōu diàoto transfer (personnel or material)
• 抽打chōu dǎto whip; to flog; to thrash
• 抽取chōu qǔto extract; to remove; to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc)
• 抽动chōu dòngto twitch; to throb; a spasm
• 抽身chōu shēnto get away from; to withdraw; to free oneself
• 抽样chōu yàngsample; sampling
• 抽血chōu xuèto take blood; to draw blood (e.g. for a test)
• 抽水马桶chōu shuǐ mǎ tǒngflush toilet
• 抽水chōu shuǐto pump water; (colloquial) to shrink in the wash
• 抽风chōu fēngto ventilate; to induce a draft; spasm
• 抽中chōu zhòngto win (a prize in a lottery)
• 抽射chōu shè(soccer) to strike the ball powerfully at goal; to unleash a fierce shot…
• 抽成chōu chéngto take a commission; to take a percentage cut

Words containing 抽

• 回抽huí chōuto pull back; to withdraw; (finance) (of a stock price etc) to retrace
• 找抽zhǎo chōu(colloquial) to look for trouble
• 生抽shēng chōulight soy sauce
• 老抽lǎo chōudark soy sauce
• 脑抽nǎo chōu(slang) to have a brain fart; to act stupidly
• 透抽tòu chōuswordtip squid (Tw)
• 双抽shuāng chōublack soy sauce
• 幸运抽奖xìng yùn chōu jiǎnglucky draw; lottery
• 短中抽长duǎn zhōng chōu chángto make the best of a bad job; to make the best use of limited resources (idiom)
• 欠抽qiàn chōu(colloquial) to deserve a slap in the face
• 慈善抽奖cí shàn chōu jiǎnga raffle (for charity)
• 釜底抽薪fǔ dǐ chōu xīnto take drastic measures to deal with a situation; to pull the carpet from under sb
• 倒抽一口气dào chōu yī kǒu qìto gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc)
• 病来如山倒，病去如抽丝bìng lái rú shān dǎo , bìng qù rú chōu sīsickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom)…

Characters built on 由

These share the phonetic component 由 (yóu), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 油yóuoil; fat; grease
• 邮yóupost (office); mail
• 轴zhóuaxis; axle; spool (for thread)
• 宙zhòueternity; (geology) eon
• 铀yóuuranium (chemistry); Taiwan pr. yòu
• 柚yòupomelo (Citrus maxima or C. grandis); shaddock; oriental grapefruit
• 釉yòuglaze (of porcelain)
• 鼬yòu(zoology) weasel

Characters that look like 抽

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…
• 拍pāito pat; to clap; to slap
• 恤xùanxiety; sympathy; to sympathize
• 柚yòupomelo (Citrus maxima or C. grandis); shaddock; oriental grapefruit
• 轶yì(bound form) (of a book, author etc) lost (to the ages)…
• 拗ào(bound form) intractable; contrary; disobedient

Sounds the same

Read chōu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 犨panting of cow; grunting of ox
• 搊pluck (stringed instrument)
• 𥬠basket for straining; to strain
• 瘳to convalesce; to recover; to heal
• 犫old variant of 犨