吹 Stroke Order

blow out a lamp

blow

to talk big / to shoot off one's mouth / to chat (dialect)

to brag

to play (wind instruments)

briefing / leaking meeting / advanced briefing

(idiom) to be exposed to the elements

to brush / to caress (of breeze) / to praise

air / be in a draught / dry with a blower

lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom) / fig. the slightest whiff of trouble

to play the xiao 簫|箫[xiao1] (mouth organ) / to beg while playing pipes; cf politician Wu Zixu 伍子胥[Wu3 Zi3 xu1], c. 520 BC destitute refugee in Wu town, 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[Wu2 shi4 chui1 xiao1] / to busk / virtuoso piper wins a beauty, cf 玉人吹簫|玉人吹箫[yu4 ren2 chui1 xiao1] / (slang) fellatio / blowjob

as easy as blowing off dust / effortless / with ease

blow

blow and beat -- to play music / play wind and percussion instruments

to blow out (a flame)

to flatter / to laud sb's accomplishments / adulation

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

to blow one's own trumpet (idiom)

to boast / to talk big

Spring breeze blows again

to agitate for / to enthusiastically promote

to make an exhibition of oneself / ostentation

lit. to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect (idiom); fig. to be fastidious / nitpick

to boast / to shoot one's mouth off

to get angry / to fume

Vertical blow