吹毛 chuīmáo

1. chuīmáo adjective easy
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: By analogy with blowing a feature; in the sense of 容易 (Guoyu '吹毛' 1)
2. chuīmáo adjective sharp
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 锐利; as in 吹毛剑 'a sharp sword' (Guoyu '吹毛' 2)

Contained in

• 吹毛求疵 to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect; to be fastidious; nitpick

Also contained in

巴陵吹毛剑

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• 第十二回 Chapter 12 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
• 卷三十四　列傳第二十二:　游雅 高閭 趙逸 胡叟 胡方回 張湛 段承根 闞駰 劉延明 趙柔 索敞 宋繇 江式 Volume 34 Biographies 22: You Ya, Gao Lu, Zhao Yi, Hu Sou, Hu Fanggui, Zhang Zhan, Duan Chenggen, Kang Yin, Liu Yanming, Zhao Rou, Sou Chang, Song Yao, Jiang Shi History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 1
• 卷三十三 列傳第二十七 王僧孺 張率 劉孝綽 王筠 Volume 33: Wang Sengru; Zhang Shuai; Liu Xiaochuo Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 1
• 卷五十二 吳書七 張顧諸葛步傳 Volume 52: Book of Wu 7 - Biographies of Zhang, Gu, Zhuge, and Bu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 1
• 卷四十 列傳第二十一 武十七王 Volume 40 Biographies 21: Emperor Wu's Seventeen Princes Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 1
• 奏啟第二十三 Volume 23: Memorials and Communications The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons 文心雕龍 — count: 1
• 卷四七　補列傳第三九 酷吏 Volume 47 Biographies 39: Cruel Officials Book of Northern Qi 北齊書 — count: 1
• 大體第二十九 Chapter 29: Cardinal Principles Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 1
• 卷四十五 列傳第十五 劉毅 和嶠 武陔 任愷 崔洪 郭奕 侯史光 何攀 Volume 45 Biographies 15: Liu Yi; Cheng Wei; He Jiao; Wu Gai; Ren Kai; Cui Hong; Guo Yi; Hou Shiguang; He Pan Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
• 卷二百五十五 列傳第一百四十三 劉宗周 黃道周 Volume 255 Biographies 143: Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou History of Ming 明史 — count: 1

Collocations

• 吹毛求 (吹毛求) 吹毛求瑕 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷五十二 吳書七 張顧諸葛步傳 Volume 52: Book of Wu 7 - Biographies of Zhang, Gu, Zhuge, and Bu — count: 5
• 吹毛洗 (吹毛洗) 雖吹毛洗垢 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷三十三 列傳第二十七 王僧孺 張率 劉孝綽 王筠 Volume 33: Wang Sengru; Zhang Shuai; Liu Xiaochuo — count: 3