吸 (xī): meaning and stroke order
吸 (xī) means to breathe, to suck in, to absorb, to inhale.
吸
- Simplified
- 吸
- Traditional
- 吸 (same form)
- Pinyin
- xī
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Stroke order of 吸
吸
- xī to breathe; to suck in
- 6 strokes
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Meaning of 吸
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xī
- to breathe
- to suck in
- to absorb
- to inhale
Radical and structure
- 吸
- Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 6 strokes · 口 on the left, 及 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
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Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).