Chinese symbol for “inhale”
吸气
xī qì
Traditional: 吸氣
to inhale; to breathe in
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inhale is 吸气 (xī qì), defined as: to inhale; to breathe in.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “inhale”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吸进 (吸進) | xī jìn | to inhale; to breathe in |
| 抽 | chōu | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole |
| 吸 | xī | to breathe; to suck in |
| 吸入 | xī rù | to breathe in; to suck in |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 吸气.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 吸引 | xī yǐn | to attract; to appeal to; to fascinate |
| 吸收 | xī shōu | to absorb; to assimilate |
| 呼吸 | hū xī | to breathe |
| 吸引力 | xī yǐn lì | attractive force (such as gravitation); sex appeal |
| 吸烟 (吸煙) | xī yān | to smoke |
| 吸血鬼 | xī xuè guǐ | leech; bloodsucking vermin |
| 天气 (天氣) | tiān qì | weather |
| 空气 (空氣) | kōng qì | air; atmosphere |
See also: Japanese symbol for “inhale”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.