吹 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)

Contained in

• 氧炔吹管 oxyacetylene torch
• 瞎吹 to boast; to shoot one's mouth off
• 吹葭 blowing the reeds
• 吹糠见米(吹糠見米) instant results; blow the husk and see the rice
• 吴市吹箫(吳市吹簫) to beg while playing the xiao
• 自吹自擂 to blow one's own trumpet
• 吹笛者 piper
• 吹干(吹乾) to blow-dry
• 吹号(吹號) to blow a brass instrument
• 不费吹灰之力(不費吹灰之力) as easy as blowing off dust; effortless; with ease
• 风吹草动(風吹草動) when the wind blows the grass moves
• 吹散 to disperse
• 吹台(吹臺) to fall through; to result in failure; (of a relationship) to break up
• 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
• 吹箫乞食(吹簫乞食) to beg while playing the xiao
• 吹牛 to brag
• 胡吹 to boast wildly
• 告吹 to fizzle out; to come to nothing
• 吹叶机(吹葉機) leaf blower (machine)
• 潮吹 female ejaculation
• 惩羹吹齑(懲羹吹齏) after being scalded by hot broth, blowing on cold vegetables; to be overly cautious
• 吹气(吹氣) to blow air (into)
• 吹口哨 to whistle
• 吹管 blowpipe
• 吹嘘(吹噓) to brag
• 吹冷风(吹冷風) to blow cold; damping expectations by discouraging or realistic words
• 吹捧 to flatter; to laud
• 风吹雨打(風吹雨打) windswept and battered by rain; to undergo hardship
• 人工吹气(人工吹氣) oral inflation
• 劲吹(勁吹) (the wind) blows violently
• 胡吹乱捧(胡吹亂捧) indiscriminate admiration
• 洗剪吹 shampoo, haircut and blow-dry
• 吹了 failed; busted; to have not succeeded; to have died; to have parted company
• 吹拍 to resort to bragging and flattering
• 吹毛 easy ; sharp
• 吹胀(吹脹) to blow up; to inflate
• 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
• 吹灰 to blow the gray reeds ; to blow away dust
• 吹灰之力 as easy as pie
• 吹管乐(吹管樂) woodwind music
• 吹熄 to blow out (a flame)
• 鼓吹者 advocate
• 吹鼓手 musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession; trumpeter of somebody's praises; booster
• 吹孔 (of a musical instrument) blow hole
• 吹枕边风(吹枕邊風) to sway through pillow talk
• 吹擂 to talk big; to boast
• 吹死灰 sends the cinders flying
• 玉人吹箫(玉人吹簫) virtuoso piper wins a beauty
• 吹拂 to brush; to caress (of breeze); to praise
• 吹牛拍马(吹牛拍馬) to resort to bragging and flattering

Also contained in

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Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 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14　志第9　音樂中 Volume 14 Treatises 9: Music 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 12
• 卷十一 志第一 律志序 Volume 11 Treatises 1: Lu Treatises Preface Book of Song 宋書 — count: 12
• 第六回 Chapter 6 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 11
• 卷五十四　志第二十三: 樂志 Volume 54 Treatises 24: Music History of Liao 遼史 — count: 10
• 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10
• 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

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
• 合吹 (合吹) 命樂師大合吹而罷 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《月令》 Proceedings of Government in the Different Months — count: 4
• 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
• 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
• 浮吹 (浮吹) 浮吹以娛 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八　本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 3