抽

HSK 5#1603 by frequencyradical 扌

chōu["v"]

to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash

Examples

他停下来抽根烟。

He stopped for a quick cigarette.

你不该抽那么多烟。

You shouldn't smoke so much.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.