抽
chōu HSK4

draw out

抽 chōu
to smoke verb
To smoke or inhale; to suck in liquid or air.

我们请你不要抽烟。

wǒ​men qǐng nǐ bù​yào chōu yān.

We ask you not to smoke.

to pull out verb
To pull or take out something from in between other things, such as drawing a sword or pulling silk from a cocoon

慢慢地，他把手抽了回去。

màn​màn de, tā bǎ shǒu chōu le huí qù.

Slowly, he pulled back his hand.

to extract verb
To take a part from a whole, such as sampling, drawing lots, or finding time for something

如果你想做某件事，抽出时间去做，不要把它推到一边。

rú​guǒ nǐ xiǎng zuò mǒu jiàn shì, chōu chū shí​jiān qù zuò, bù​yào bǎ tā tuī dào yī​biān.

If you want to do something, make time for it and don’t push it aside.

abstract adjectivenoun
To be abstract or removed from concrete details (as in 抽象 chōu​xiàng 抽 chōu)
to shrink nounverb
To shrink or contract.
to sprout verb
(of certain plants) to put forth or sprout buds, ears, or new growth.
to whip
To lash or thrash with a whip or a flexible object
to brew
To extract or brew, especially used for types of soy sauce
to smash
To hit a ball forcefully with a racket in sports such as tennis or table tennis

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,178th most common 118.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,051st most common 94.4 per million appears in 35% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
61.2 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
71.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+62BD

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