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吹

吹

吹 U+5439, 吹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5439
← 吸
[U+5438] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 吺 →
[U+543A]
See also: 欥

Translingual

Han character

吹 (radical 30 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 弓人 (NO), four-corner 67082, composition ⿰口欠)

References

  • KangXi: page 179, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3373
  • Dae Jaweon: page 397, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 593, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5439

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 吹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 吹
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (吹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
吹 *kʰjol, *kʰjols
炊 *kʰjol
焁 *qʰral, *qʰel

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 口 ‎(“mouth”) + 欠 ‎(“blow”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 吹 吹
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 昌 (24) 昌 (24)
Final (韻) 支 (12) 支 (12)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 昌垂切 尺僞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕʰiuᴇ/ /t͡ɕʰiuᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕʰʷiɛ/ /t͡ɕʰʷiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕʰjuɛ/ /t͡ɕʰjuɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cʰwiə̆/ /cʰwiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕʰiue/ /t͡ɕʰiueH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕʰǐwe/ /t͡ɕʰǐweH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕʰwie̯/ /t͡ɕʰwie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 chuī chuì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 吹 吹
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 chuī chuì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyhwe › ‹ tsyhweH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tʰo[r]/ /*tʰo[r]-s/
English blow (v.) musical concert

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 吹 吹
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 1653 1655
Phonetic
component		 吹 吹
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 吹 吹
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰjol/ /*kʰjols/

Definitions

吹

  1. to blow
  2. to puff
  3. to brag, boast
  4. to play (a wind instrument)
    吹口琴  ―  chuī kǒuqín  ―  to play the harmonica

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

吹

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. To blow (such as an instrument)

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

吹 • ‎(chwi) (hangeul 취, revised chwi, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

吹 (xuy, xi, xơi, xoe, xôi, xuê, xuý, xùi, xì, xỉ, xua, xuề, xuế, xuể, xui, xủi, xuôi)

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