| chōu | to draw out/to smoke (cigarettes)/to pump |
| 抽 | to draw out to pull out from inbetween sth to remove part of the whole |
| 抽丁 | press-gang |
| 抽丝 | to spin silk |
| 抽丝剥茧 | lit. to spin silk from cocoons fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom) |
| 抽出 | to take out to extract |
| 抽动 | to twitch to throb a spasm |
| 抽印 | offprint |
| 抽印本 | separate; offprints; separatum |
| 抽取 | to extract (a medical sample) |
| 抽吸 | pump; pumping; suction; sucking; suck; aspiration |
| 抽吸器 | suction; aspirator |
| 抽吸泵 | [Mechanics] a suction pump; a sorption pump |
| 抽咽 | to sob |
| 抽啜 | To choke on one's tears. |
| 抽嘴巴 | to slap |
| 抽噎 | to sob |
| 抽壮丁 | press-gang |
| 抽头 | take a percentage of a deal; tap; pigtail; wapping off; tapping; vigorish; pig tail; the kitty |
| 抽奖 | to draw a prize a lottery a raffle |
| 抽屉 | drawer |