抽
chōu HSK4

draw out

抽 chōu
smoke verb
to inhale and exhale the smoke of a cigarette or other tobacco product; to smoke.

他习惯在饭后抽一支烟。

tā xí​guàn zài fàn hòu chōu yī zhī yān.

He is used to having a cigarette after a meal.

draw out verb
to pull out from a container or from in between other items

他从书架上抽了一本书。

tā cóng shū​jià shàng chōu le yī běn shū.

He pulled a book from the shelf.

remove verb
to take a portion from a whole, to sample, or to find time within a schedule

无论多忙，他每天都会抽时间读书。

wú​lùn duō máng, tā měi tiān dōu huì chōu shí​jiān dú​shū.

No matter how busy he is, he makes time to read every day.

whip verb
to lash, thrash, or strike with a flexible object like a whip

他用马鞭狠狠地抽了一下马。

tā yòng mǎ​biān hěn​hěn de chōu le yī xià mǎ.

He gave the horse a sharp lash with his whip.

sprout verb
of certain plants, to grow or put forth buds, shoots, or leaves

由于气候适宜，麦苗开始抽穗了。

yóu​yú qì​hòu shì​yí, mài​miáo kāi​shǐ chōu suì le.

Due to the favorable climate, the wheat has begun to ear.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)