吸
xī HSK4

inhale

吸 xī
to inhale verb
To breathe in or suck in gases or liquids through the mouth or nose; the opposite of 呼 hū.

尽量别把烟吸进去。

jǐn​liàng bié bǎ yān xī jìn qù.

Try not to inhale the smoke.

to attract verbnoun
To draw something toward oneself through physical force or interest.
to absorb verb
To take in or soak up substances, nutrients, or information from the outside.
Xi
(bound form) the surname Xi.
to drink
(literary) to drink or sip liquids

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Frequency
Character
Written text
924th most common 185.5 per million
Movie subtitles
578th most common 243.8 per million appears in 60% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
59.2 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
37.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5438

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)