Results for “吹”

see 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[wú shì chuī xiāo]

instant results / lit. blow the husk and see the rice

to blow up / to inflate

(coll.) to fall through / to result in failure / (of a relationship) to break up

leaf blower

to blow a brass instrument

(of wind) to blow fiercely / (of a storm) to strike

(vulgar) to brag / to bullshit

to get angry / to fume

(old) musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession / (fig.) trumpeter of sb's praises / booster

as easy as blowing off dust / effortless / with ease

to inflate using one's breath / (in CPR) to give a rescue breath

What brings you here? (idiom)

(of wind) to blow strongly / (fig.) (of trends, changes etc) to sweep through society

(idiom) to beg on the streets / to fall into utter destitution (allusion to Wu Zixu's 伍子胥[Wǔ Zǐ xū] exile and humiliation as described in Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian" 史記|史记[Shǐ jì])

(loanword) interesting

to make an exhibition of oneself / ostentation

to advocate vociferously

"The Wind Blows", a game in which one player calls out a category, all players who match it must change seats, and the person left without a seat becomes "it" (鬼[guǐ])

military wind and percussion music played on horseback under the Han / transverse flute / to play such a flute

shampoo, haircut and blow-dry

female ejaculation

virtuoso piper wins a beauty / the xiao 簫|箫[xiāo] (mouth organ) virtuoso 蕭史|萧史[Xiāo Shǐ] won for his wife the beautiful daughter of Duke Mu of Qin 秦穆公[Qín Mù gōng]

to boast / to shoot one's mouth off

to regard decapitation as no more important than the wind blowing off your hat (idiom)

to boast wildly

to blow one's own horn (idiom)

lit. even a prairie fire cannot destroy the grass - it grows again when the breeze blows (proverb) / fig. cannot be easily eliminated / abbr. to 野火春風|野火春风[yě huǒ chūn fēng]

hair dryer

(idiom) to be exposed to the elements

lit. windswept and battered by rain / to undergo hardship (idiom)