Kanji1 / 6
吸 kanji
suck, imbibe, inhale, sip
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
キュウ
Kun readings
すう
Words with 吸
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —吸引力suction; sucking force; absorption power
- —吸光度absorbance; extinction; optical density
- —呼吸音breath sounds; respiratory sounds
- —吸蜜管siphonet
- —吸気系intake system (of an engine); air intake system
- —化学吸着chemisorb
- —呼吸器系respiratory system
- —吸収合併merger; takeover
- —吸血動物bloodsucker
- —酸素吸入oxygen inhalation
- —腹式呼吸diaphragmatic breathing; abdominal breathing
- —皮膚呼吸cutaneous respiration
- —呼吸中枢respiratory center; respiratory centre
- —呼吸困難labored breathing; laboured breathing; dyspnea; dyspnoea
- —呼吸運動respiratory movement
- —呼吸不全respiratory failure
- —脂肪吸引liposuction
- —エラ呼吸branchial respiration
- —呼吸機能respiratory function
- —住血吸虫blood fluke (any fluke of family Schistosomatidae); schistosome