吹 chuī
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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') -
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; ) -
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') -
chuī
verb
to end in failure
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '吹' v 4)
Contained in
- 告吹 to fizzle out; to come to nothing
- 什么风把你吹来的(什麼風把你吹來的) What brings you here?
- 吹管乐(吹管樂) woodwind music
- 氧炔吹管 oxyacetylene torch
- 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生(野火燒不盡，春風吹又生) even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows
- 瞎吹 to boast; to shoot one's mouth off
- 风吹日晒(風吹日曬) to be exposed to the elements
- 吹毛 easy ; sharp
- 风吹草动(風吹草動) when the wind blows the grass moves
- 洗剪吹 shampoo, haircut and blow-dry
- 胡吹乱捧(胡吹亂捧) indiscriminate admiration
- 吹箫(吹簫) to play the mouth organ ; to beg while playing pipes ; to busk
- 大吹大擂 to make an exhibition of oneself; ostentation
- 骑吹(騎吹) army song
- 吹箫乞食(吹簫乞食) to beg while playing the xiao
- 吹嘘(吹噓) to brag
- 吹灯拔蜡(吹燈拔蠟) to blow out the lamp and put out the candle; to die; to bite the dust; to be over and done with
- 吹枕边风(吹枕邊風) to sway through pillow talk
- 自我吹嘘(自我吹噓) to blow one's own horn
- 吹胡子瞪眼(吹鬍子瞪眼) to get angry; to fume
- 电吹风(電吹風) hair dryer
- 吴市吹箫(吳市吹簫) to beg while playing the xiao
- 自吹自擂 to blow one's own trumpet
- 吹灰 to blow the gray reeds ; to blow away dust
- 吹台(吹臺) to fall through; to result in failure; (of a relationship) to break up
- 吹风机(吹風機) hair dryer; blow dryer
- 吹捧 to flatter; to laud
- 吹糠见米(吹糠見米) instant results; blow the husk and see the rice
- 吹奏乐器(吹奏樂器) wind instrument
- 鼓吹者 advocate
- 鼓吹乐(鼓吹樂) wind instrument music
- 吹毛求疵 to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect; to be fastidious; nitpick
- 因吹斯汀 interesting
- 吹牛皮 to boast; to talk big
- 吹牛 to brag
- 吹灰之力 as easy as pie
- 胡吹 to boast wildly
- 吹叶机(吹葉機) leaf blower (machine)
- 鼓吹 to agitate for; to advocate ; to praise ; a musical group for a feast or ceremony ; music
- 吹熄 to blow out (a flame)
- 吹散 to disperse
- 吹了 failed; busted; to have not succeeded; to have died; to have parted company
- 吹笛者 piper
- 吹号(吹號) to blow a brass instrument
- 吹拍 to resort to bragging and flattering
- 吹袭(吹襲) storm struck; to attack (of wind)
- 人工吹气(人工吹氣) oral inflation
- 不费吹灰之力(不費吹灰之力) as easy as blowing off dust; effortless; with ease
- 吹喇叭 blowing the trumpet; to praise
- 吹孔 (of a musical instrument) blow hole
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- 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 17
- 卷三十一 Scroll 31 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 15
- 卷十六 志第六 律曆上 Volume 16 Treatises 6: Rhythm and the Calendar Part One Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 15
- 第二十一回 Chapter 21 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 14
- 卷十一 志第一 律志序 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Lu Treatises Preface Book of Song 宋書 — count: 12
- 卷14 志第9 音樂中 Volume 14 Treatises 9: Music 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 12
- 第六回 Chapter 6 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 11
- 卷一百四十七 志第一百 儀衞五 Volume 147 Treatises 100: Ceremonial Guards 5 History of Song 宋史 — count: 10
- 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10
- 卷五十四 志第二十三: 樂志 Volume 54 Treatises 24: Music History of Liao 遼史 — count: 10
Collocations
- 吹竽 (吹竽) 掌教吹竽 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 春官宗伯 第三 3. Office of Spring and Minister of Rites — count: 16
- 吹笙 (吹笙) 鼓瑟吹笙 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鹿鳴之什‧鹿鳴 Minor odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Lu Ming - Lu Ming — count: 6
- 吹笛 (吹笛) 好吹笛 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十上 馬融列傳 Volume 60a: Biography of Ma Rong — count: 6
- 吹律 (吹律) 吹律聽聲 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《律書》 Bells — count: 5
- 风吹 (風吹) 聖人不先風吹 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十六 說山訓 Chapter 16: A Mountain of Persuasion — count: 4
- 横吹 (橫吹) 橫吹 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷四十七 班梁列傳 Volume 47: Biographies of Ban, Liang — count: 4
- 歌吹 (歌吹) 擊鼓歌吹作俳倡 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷六十八 霍光金日磾傳 Volume 68: Huo Guang and Jin Midi — count: 3
- 枯吹 (枯吹) 噓枯吹生 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十 鄭孔荀列傳 Volume 70: Biographies of Zheng, Kong, Xun — count: 3
- 浮吹 (浮吹) 浮吹以娛 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八 本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 3
- 吹生 (吹生) 噓枯吹生 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十 鄭孔荀列傳 Volume 70: Biographies of Zheng, Kong, Xun — count: 3