抽 — Chinese character
抽
chōu
to draw out, to pull out; to sprout
- Pinyin
- chōu
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 扌 由
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 由
- Japanese
- 抽 as a kanji
Common words with 抽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 抽烟 (抽煙) | chōu yān | variant of 抽烟 (chōu yān) |
| 抽烟 (抽菸) | chōu yān | to smoke (tobacco) |
| 抽象 | chōu xiàng | abstract; abstraction |
| 抽出 | chōu chū | to take out; to extract |
| 抽取 | chōu qǔ | to extract; to remove |
| 抽屉 (抽屜) | chōu ti | drawer |
| 抽奖 (抽獎) | chōu jiǎng | to draw a prize; a lottery |
| 抽查 | chōu chá | random inspection; to do a spot check |
| 抽调 (抽調) | chōu diào | to transfer (personnel or material) |
| 抽签 (抽籤) | chōu qiān | to perform divination with sticks; to draw lots |
| 抽插 | chōu chā | to slide in and out; thrusting |
| 抽搐 | chōu chù | to twitch |
English words written with 抽
抽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.