吸
吸 — heup
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 마실 흡
- Romanization
- heup
- English
- inhale, suck in; absorb; attract
- Mandarin
- xī
- Japanese on'yomi
- キュウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- す.う
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 6
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,054 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 (30, 4 residual)
- Unicode
- U+5438
Parts that make up 吸
How 吸 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 吸 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 口, 及.
Korean example words with 吸
- 흡식吸息 Korean gloss: 들이마시는 숨
- 호흡하다呼吸 Korean gloss: 숨을 쉬다
- 흡연하다吸煙 Korean gloss: 담배를 피우다
- 흡입력吸入力 Korean gloss: 빨아들이는 힘
- 재흡연再吸煙 Korean gloss: 담배를 다시 피움
- 흡연가吸煙家 Korean gloss: 담배를 피우는 사람
- 흡한성吸汗性 Korean gloss: 땀을 흡수하는 성질
- 비흡연非吸煙 Korean gloss: 담배를 피우지 아니함
- 흡습력吸濕力 Korean gloss: 습기를 빨아들이는 힘
- 흡습포吸濕布 Korean gloss: 습기를 빨아들이는 천
- 흡수력吸收力 Korean gloss: 빨아서 거두어들이는 힘
- 흡수층吸收層 Korean gloss: 빨아서 거두어들이는 층
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 吸
- 呼吸こきゅう breathing; respiration; knack
- 吸収きゅうしゅう absorption; suction; attraction
- 呼吸器こきゅうき respiratory organs
- 吸い殻すいがら cigarette end; cigarette butt
- 人工呼吸じんこうこきゅう artificial respiration
- 吸い込むすいこむ to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up
- 吸引きゅういん absorption; suction; aspiration
- 吸うすう to breathe in; to inhale; to smoke (a cigarette, etc.)
- 吸着きゅうちゃく adsorption; adhesion (by suction); attachment
- 吸入きゅうにゅう inhalation
- 吸い上げすいあげ suction; sucking
- 吸い上げるすいあげる to suck up; to pump up; to draw up
Other hanja read “흡”
Other hanja with radical 口
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences