吹
chuī HSK2

blow

吹 chuī
to blow verb
to blow; to puff; to move as a current of air

风从东方吹来。

fēng cóng dōng​fāng chuī lái.

The wind is blowing from the east.

to play verb
to play a wind instrument; (archaic) variant pronunciation used in certain terms like 鼓吹 gǔ​chuì

我也喜欢吹长笛。

wǒ yě xǐ​huan chuī cháng​dí.

I also like playing the flute.

to boast verb
to boast; to brag; to talk big
to fall through
to end in failure; to fall through (of plans, deals, etc.)
to spread
to spread news or rumors, especially when unintended
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,390th most common 83.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,355th most common 54.2 per million appears in 24% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
55.0 per million appears in 18% of films
Written text
56.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5439

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)