Meaning

Primary

To Smoke

Alternatives

To Suck, To Inhale

Word Type

transitive verb, godan verb

Explanation

Because the hiragana ends with an sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means suck so the verb vocab version is to suck, but it's usually used to talk about what you do to cigarettes, so a better translation I think is to smoke.

Reading

すう
Kyoko
(Tokyo accent, female)
Kenichi
(Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you: You smoke too much, and that gives you cancer. You decide to sue () the cigarette makers.

Context

Context Sentences

これを最後に、きっぱりとタバコを吸うのを止めるつもりなんだ。

After this one, I’m going to quit smoking once and for all.

Kanji Composition