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  *吹* | 吹* | *吹
to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through
HSK 2
to flatter / to laud sb's accomplishments / adulation
HSK 7-9
to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect)
HSK 7-9
failed; busted; to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company; to have chilled (of a relationship)
HSK 7-9
to let the wind blow on oneself; to be exposed to the wind; to air out (a room); to blow air (e.g. to dry one's hair) / (fig.) to brief sb informally; to leak or hint at information ahead of formal release
to play the xiao 簫|箫, a vertical bamboo flute / (literary) to beg on the streets (abbr. for 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫) / (slang) to give a blowjob
to blow-dry
to brush / to caress (of breeze) / to praise
to resort to bragging and flattering / abbr. for 吹牛拍馬|吹牛拍马
to play (wind instruments)
to brag
to blow out (a flame)
to blow cold / damping expectations by discouraging or realistic words
(idiom) a slight effort
blowpipe
to blow a brass instrument
lit. to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect (idiom); fig. to be fastidious / nitpick
(old) musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession / (fig.) trumpeter of sb's praises / booster
to blow out (a flame)
lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) / fig. to die / to bite the dust / to be over and done with
(coll.) to fall through / to result in failure / (of a relationship) to break up
instant results / lit. blow the husk and see the rice
hair dryer
to boast / to talk big
to whistle
to blow away dust
to disperse
to blow air (into)
to get angry; to fume
piper
(lit.) blowing the trumpet / (fig.) to praise sb / (slang) to give a blowjob
woodwind music
leaf blower
to boast and flatter
to blow a whistle / to whistle
whistleblower
(of a musical instrument) blow hole
to talk big / to boast
to sway (sb) through pillow talk
to resort to bragging and flattering
lottery machine
player of the yu (free reed wind instrument)
to blow up / to inflate
(of wind) to blow fiercely; (of a storm) to strike


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