吹
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast; to puff; to boast; to brag; to end in failure; to fall through
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 口 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 吹
- Common rank
- #1,131
- Unicode
- U+5439
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 吹
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人工吹气 | to inflate using one's breath; (in CPR) to give a rescue breath | |
| 不费吹灰之力 | as easy as blowing off dust; effortless; with ease | |
| 风吹草动 | (lit.) grass stirring in the wind (idiom); (fig.) the slightest whiff of trouble | |
| 大风吹 | "The Wind Blows", a game in which one player calls out a category, all players who match i… | |
| 吹风机 | hair dryer | |
| 电吹风 | hair dryer | |
| 风吹雨打 | lit. windswept and battered by rain; to undergo hardship (idiom) | |
| 吹灰之力 | (idiom) a slight effort | |
| 吹球机 | lottery machine | |
| 吹管乐 | woodwind music | |
| 吹叶机 | leaf blower | |
| 吹牛皮 | to boast; to talk big | |
| 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生 | lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (… | |
| 吹水 | (coll.) to chat casually; to shoot the breeze (originally Cantonese) | |
| 吹冷风 | to blow cold; damping expectations by discouraging or realistic words | |
| 吹气 | to blow air (into) | |
| 吹风 | to let the wind blow on oneself; to be exposed to the wind; to air out (a room); to blow a… | |
| 吹牛拍马 | to resort to bragging and flattering | |
| 吹台 | (coll.) to fall through; to result in failure; (of a relationship) to break up | |
| 吹管 | blowpipe |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 欠 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 欠 sound part | to lack, to owe; to breathe, to yawn | |
| 软 | soft, pliable, flexible; weak | |
| 饮 | to swallow, to drink; a kind of drink | |
| 坎 | pit, hole; to trap, to snare; crisis | |
| 钦 | to respect, to admire; royal | |
| 砍 | to hack, to chop, to cut, to fell | |
| 炊 | meal; to cook, to steam | |
| 嵌 | valley, ravine; to fall into; to inlay, to set in | |
| 芡 | Gorgon plant, fox nut | |
| 欿 | sad, gloomy, discontent | |
| 肷 | the area between the waist and hips |