chuī

  1. chuī verb to blow; to exhale
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: Of the wind or breath; for example, the idiom 风吹雨打 'windswept and battered by rain [to undergo hardship]' (CC-CEDICT '吹' v 2; Guoyu '吹' v 2; Kroll 2015 '吹' 1, p. 61; Unihan '吹')
  2. chuī verb to play a wind instrument
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Music
    Notes: (Guoyu '吹' v 1; Kroll 2015 '吹' 1a, p. 61; )
  3. chuī verb to brag; to boast
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: In the sense of 夸口; as in 吹牛 (Guoyu '吹' v 3; Unihan '吹')
  4. chuī verb to end in failure
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
    Notes: (Guoyu '吹' v 4)

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