吹
to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through
吹
=
口
+
欠
:
Chantal Chicken (chu) is totally crazy about creating wind instruments from vegetables lately. In front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1) she stole a mandarin (口) from a local merchant and left an IOU note (欠) instead. She carved the mandarin out and created a little ocarina out of it, which she plays by blowing (吹) into it every since.
吹 character breakdown
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
to owe / to lack / (literary) to be deficient in / (bound form) yawn / to raise slightly (a part of one's body)
Characters with 吹 as component
吹
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 吹
as easy as blowing off dust / effortless / with ease
(of wind) to blow strongly / (fig.) (of trends, changes etc) to sweep through society
to beg while playing the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1] (mouth organ) / cf Wu Zixu 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1], destitute refugee from Chu 楚[Chu3], busked in Wu town c. 520 BC, then became a powerful politician
failed / busted / to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company / to have chilled (of a relationship)
to blow cold / damping expectations by discouraging or realistic words