| 抽 | [ choū ] to draw out, to pull out from in between, to remove part of the whole, (of certain plants) to sprout or bud, to whip or thrash |
| 抽中 | [ choū zhòng ] to win (a prize in a lottery) |
| 抽冷子 | [ choū lěng zi ] (coll.) unexpectedly |
| 抽出 | [ choū chū ] to take out, to extract |
| 抽動 | [ choū dòng ] to twitch, to throb, a spasm, to divert (money) to other uses |
| 抽動症 | [ choū dòng zhèng ] Tourette syndrome |
| 抽取 | [ choū qǔ ] to extract, to remove, to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc) |
| 抽咽 | [ choū yè ] to sob |
| 抽嘴巴 | [ choū zuǐ ba ] to slap |
| 抽噎 | [ choū yē ] to sob |
| 抽屜 | [ choū ti ] drawer |
| 抽打 | [ choū dǎ ] to whip, to flog, to thrash |
| 抽抽噎噎 | [ choū chou yē yē ] to sob and sniffle |
| 抽插 | [ choū chā ] to slide in and out, thrusting |
| 抽搐 | [ choū chù ] to twitch |
| 抽搭 | [ choū dā ] to sob, to cry |
| 抽斗 | [ choū doǔ ] drawer |
| 抽時間 | [ choū shí jiān ] to (try to) find the time to |
| 抽查 | [ choū chá ] random inspection, to do a spot check |
| 抽樣 | [ choū yàng ] sample, sampling |
| 抽檢 | [ choū jiǎn ] sampling, spot check, random test |
| 抽氣 | [ choū qì ] to draw air out |
| 抽水機 | [ choū shuǐ jī ] water pump |
| 抽水泵 | [ choū shuǐ bèng ] water pump |
| 抽水站 | [ choū shuǐ zhàn ] water pumping station |
| 抽水馬桶 | [ choū shuǐ mǎ tǒng ] flush toilet |
| 抽油煙機 | [ choū yoú yān jī ] range hood, kitchen exhaust hood |
| 抽泣 | [ choū qì ] to sob spasmodically |
| 抽煙 | [ choū yān ] to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco) |
| 抽獎 | [ choū jiǎng ] to draw a prize, a lottery, a raffle |
| 抽痛 | [ choū tòng ] to throb with pain, throbbing pain, twang, pang, CL:陣|阵[zhen4] |
| 抽稅 | [ choū shuì ] to tax, to levy a tax |
| 抽空 | [ choū kòng ] to find the time to do sth |
| 抽筋 | [ choū jīn ] cramp, charley horse, to pull a tendon |
| 抽籤 | [ choū qiān ] to perform divination with sticks, to draw lots, a ballot (in share dealing) |
| 抽紙 | [ choū zhǐ ] paper tissue (in a box) |
| 抽絲 | [ choū sī ] to spin silk |
| 抽絲剝繭 | [ choū sī baō jiǎn ] lit. to spin silk from cocoons, fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom) |
| 抽脂 | [ choū zhī ] liposuction |
| 抽菸 | [ choū yān ] variant of 抽煙|抽烟[chou1 yan1], to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco) |
| 抽號 | [ choū haò ] to randomly select (as for a lottery), to take a number (for queuing) |
| 抽血 | [ choū xuè ] to take blood, to draw blood (e.g. for a test) |
| 抽認卡 | [ choū rèn kǎ ] flashcard |
| 抽調 | [ choū ] to transfer (personnel or material) |
| 抽象 | [ choū xiàng ] abstract, abstraction, CL:種|种[zhong3] |
| 抽象代數 | [ choū xiàng daì shù ] abstract algebra |
| 抽象域 | [ choū xiàng yù ] abstract field (math.) |
| 抽象思維 | [ choū xiàng sī weí ] abstract thought, logical thinking |
| 抽象詞 | [ choū xiàng cí ] abstract word |
| 抽貸 | [ choū daì ] to call in a loan |
| 抽身 | [ choū shēn ] to get away from, to withdraw, to free oneself |
| 抽離 | [ choū lí ] to remove, to step back from involvement, to disengage |
| 抽頭 | [ choū toú ] to take a percentage of the winnings (in gambling), tap (in an electromagnetic coil), drawer (of a desk etc) |
| 抽風 | [ choū fēng ] to ventilate, to induce a draft, spasm, convulsion |
| 抽風機 | [ choū fēng jī ] exhaust fan |
| 抽驗 | [ choū yàn ] to test a random sample, to spot-check |
| ⇒ 倒抽一口氣 | [ daò choū yī koǔ qì ] to gasp (in surprise, dismay, fright etc) |
| ⇒ 幸運抽獎 | [ xìng yùn choū jiǎng ] lucky draw, lottery |
| ⇒ 慈善抽獎 | [ cí shàn choū jiǎng ] a raffle (for charity) |
| ⇒ 找抽 | [ zhaǒ choū ] (coll.) to look for trouble |
| ⇒ 抽抽噎噎 | [ choū chou yē yē ] to sob and sniffle |
| ⇒ 欠抽 | [ qiàn choū ] (coll.) to deserve a slap in the face |
| ⇒ 生抽 | [ shēng choū ] light soy sauce |
| ⇒ 病來如山倒，病去如抽絲 | [ bìng laí rú shān daǒ bìng qù rú choū sī ] sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly |
| ⇒ 短中抽長 | [ duǎn zhōng choū cháng ] to make the best of a bad job, to make the best use of limited resources (idiom) |
| ⇒ 老抽 | [ laǒ choū ] dark soy sauce |
| ⇒ 透抽 | [ toù choū ] swordtip squid (Tw) |
| ⇒ 釜底抽薪 | [ fǔ dǐ choū xīn ] to take drastic measures to deal with a situation, to pull the carpet from under sb |
| ⇒ 雙抽 | [ shuāng choū ] black soy sauce |
