chuī HSK2

blow

Depicts blowing out air () with the mouth ().

Components

Meaning component
kǒu, kou mouth
Meaning component
qiàn, qian yawn, deficient

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsyhwetʰo[r] blow (v.)
tsyhweHtʰo[r]-s musical concert

說文解字

《說文》:“吹,噓也。从口,从欠。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica