铙吹 náochuī military music Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 铙 鐃 náo ancient army bell (bound form) an ancient percussion instrument used in military context to signal a stop to drumming, shaped like a large bell without a clapper and struck with a mallet吹 chuī verb to play to play a wind instrument; (archaic) variant pronunciation used in certain terms like 鼓吹 gǔchuì