Illustration: At a kitchen counter, a child gently lowers a thick dry sponge into a puddle from an overturned drinking glass. The sponge's lower half has become visibly saturated, and a wet boundary climbs through its porous body while the puddle narrows around it.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

吸きゅう収しゅう

kyuushuu

to absorb

Example sentences

  1. この布ぬのは水みずをよく吸収きゅうしゅうする。

    This cloth absorbs water well.

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  2. 彼かれは新あたらしい思想しそうを吸収きゅうしゅうした。

    He absorbed new ideas.

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  3. 敷物しきものは音おとを吸収きゅうしゅうする。

    Rugs absorb sound.

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Kanji in 吸収

  • 吸suck; imbibeOnキュウKunすう
  • 収income; obtainOnシュウKunおさめる・おさまる

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