Illustration: After a gentle winter walk through a Japanese riverside park, an adult pauses with one hand resting on their ribs and slowly exhales a cloud of warm breath. Their shoulders remain relaxed and their mouth forms a small opening.

JLPT N3suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

呼こ吸きゅう

kokyuu

to breathe, breathing

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれの呼吸こきゅうは次第しだいに弱よわくなった。

    His breathing became faint.

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  2. 酸素さんそは私わたしたちが呼吸こきゅうすると肺はいの中なかに取とり込こまれる。

    Oxygen is taken into our lungs when we breathe.

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  3. 呼吸こきゅうがしにくいのです。

    I have difficulty breathing.

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Kanji in 呼吸

  • 呼call; call out toOnコKunよぶ
  • 吸suck; imbibeOnキュウKunすう

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