吹
to blow; to play a wind instrument; to blast; to puff; to boast; to brag; to end in failure; to fall through
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,131 U+5439
How 吹 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
口 (semantic, “mouth”) + 欠 (phonetic, qiàn)
How to remember it
blow · Heisig RSH #475
口 mouth + 欠 lack
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 欠
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 欠 (qiàn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 欠 sound component | qiàn | to lack, to owe; to breathe, to yawn |
| 软 | ruǎn | soft, pliable, flexible; weak |
| 饮 | yǐn | to swallow, to drink; a kind of drink |
| 坎 | kǎn | pit, hole; to trap, to snare; crisis |
| 钦 | qīn | to respect, to admire; royal |
| 砍 | kǎn | to hack, to chop, to cut, to fell |
| 炊 | chuī | meal; to cook, to steam |
| 嵌 | qiàn | valley, ravine; to fall into; to inlay, to set in |
| 芡 | qiàn | Gorgon plant, fox nut |
| 欿 | kǎn | sad, gloomy, discontent |
| 肷 | qiǎn | the area between the waist and hips |
Words containing 吹
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人工吹气 | rén gōng chuī qì | to inflate using one's breath; (in CPR) to give a rescue breath |
| 不费吹灰之力 | bù fèi chuī huī zhī lì | as easy as blowing off dust; effortless; with ease |
| 风吹草动 | fēng chuī cǎo dòng | (lit.) grass stirring in the wind (idiom); (fig.) the slightest whiff of trouble |
| 大风吹 | dà fēng chuī | "The Wind Blows", a game in which one player calls out a category, all players who match i… |
| 吹风机 | chuī fēng jī | hair dryer |
| 电吹风 | diàn chuī fēng | hair dryer |
| 风吹雨打 | fēng chuī yǔ dǎ | lit. windswept and battered by rain; to undergo hardship (idiom) |
| 吹灰之力 | chuī huī zhī lì | (idiom) a slight effort |
| 吹球机 | chuī qiú jī | lottery machine |
| 吹管乐 | chuī guǎn yuè | woodwind music |
| 吹叶机 | chuī yè jī | leaf blower |
| 吹牛皮 | chuī niú pí | to boast; to talk big |
| 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生 | yě huǒ shāo bù jìn , chūn fēng chuī yòu shēng | lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (… |
| 吹水 | chuī shuǐ | (coll.) to chat casually; to shoot the breeze (originally Cantonese) |
| 吹冷风 | chuī lěng fēng | to blow cold; damping expectations by discouraging or realistic words |
| 吹气 | chuī qì | to blow air (into) |
| 吹风 | chuī fēng | 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 | chuī niú pāi mǎ | to resort to bragging and flattering |
| 吹台 | chuī tái | (coll.) to fall through; to result in failure; (of a relationship) to break up |
| 吹管 | chuī guǎn | blowpipe |