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HSK
to breathe
HSK 4
to smoke
HSK 4
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  *吸* | 吸* | *吸
to breathe / to suck in / to absorb / to inhale
HSK 4
to attract; to appeal to; to fascinate
HSK 4
(drinking) straw / pipette / eyedropper / snorkel / CL:
HSK 4
to absorb / to assimilate / to ingest / to recruit
HSK 4
to take drugs
HSK 6
to suck blood
to absorb / to draw (a lesson, insight etc) / to assimilate
HSK 7-9
to draw a lesson (from a setback)
inhaler
artificial respiration (medicine)
regulator (diving)
flush-mounted ceiling lamp (loanword)
(lit. and fig.) to siphon
to suck
schistosome, parasitic flatworm causing snail fever (bilharzia or schistosomiasis)
(physics) attraction (gravitational, magnetic, electrostatic etc) / suction / (fig.) attraction (power to attract interest or liking)
to inhale / to draw in breath
vacuum cleaner
(medicine) ventilator
to suck on (sth) / to suck in
No smoking!
(medicine) ventilator
attractive force (such as gravitation) / sex appeal / attractiveness
to inhale / to breathe in
to take in / to absorb / to admit / to accept
HSK 7-9
suction pad / sucker
absorbent
respiratory system
to attract attention; to catch attention
eye-catching
"magnetic" force that attracts investment and talented individuals / in particular, the attraction China has for people and capital from around the world
to breathe / to absorb oxygen
respiratory tract
smoking room
gravitation
to adhere to a surface / to absorb / to draw in / (fig.) to attract / (chemistry) adsorption
opposite polarities attract / (fig.) opposite sexes attract / opposites attract
No smoking / Please do not smoke
attractor (math., dynamical systems)
heat absorption
to breathe in / to suck in / to inhale
oral sucker (e.g. on bloodsucking parasite)
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
sound absorption
to absorb completely / to drink up
to absorb / to take in and retain
mutual attraction (e.g. electrostatic) / to attract one another
vacuum cleaner / dust catcher
blood sucker / a leech / leecher
vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)
(neologism c. 2017) to dote on cats
schistosomiasis
drug addiction
(of an insect) to drink (nectar, sap, blood etc) / (of a person) to take (a narcotic drug) / to drink through a straw
honeyeater (bird of family Meliphagidae)
absorption / absorbability (chemistry)
smoking area
breast pump
magnet
(of a magnet) to attract metallic objects / (fig.) to exert a magnetic attraction (for investment, tourists etc)
upper respiratory tract infection
sucker mouth
(bird species of China) rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)
suction valve
to absorb moisture
to suckle / to pump breast milk with a breast pump
(scuba diving) backup regulator; octopus
to absorb carbon
trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, approx 6000 species, mostly parasite, incl. on humans
schistosoma
sorption (generic term for absorption, adsorption, diffusion, precipitation etc)
Like attracts like.
epiglottis
shark sucker (Echeneis naucrates)
accretion
to gasp (with amazement or shock etc) / to feel a chill run down one's spine / to have one's hairs stand on end
absorbed dose
severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
absorbent
leech / bloodsucking vermin / vampire (translated European notion) / fig. cruel exploiter, esp. a capitalist exploiting the workers
snorkel
aspirator
sleep apnea
absorbent
liver fluke
digenetic trematode worm (i.e. from Order Digenea 複殖目|复殖目)
to de-absorb / to get a chemical out of solution
inhalant
money-spinning / moneymaking
toilet plunger
to resume smoking (after giving up) / to relapse into smoking or drug abuse
second-hand smoking / passive smoking
to increase one's followers; to get more fans
sound-absorbing
(scuba diving) regulator; demand valve
to vacuum the floor
attractor network
intravenous drug / IV drug

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