吹
chuī HSK2

blow

吹 chuī
blow verb
to blow, puff, or blast air

微风轻轻地吹着。

wēi​fēng qīng​qīng de chuī zhe.

A gentle breeze is blowing softly.

play instrument verb
to play a wind instrument

他笛子吹得很好听。

tā dí​zi chuī de hěn hǎo​tīng.

He plays the flute very beautifully.

boast verb
to brag or boast

别听他瞎吹。

bié tīng tā xiā chuī.

Don't listen to his bragging.

fall through verb
to end in failure or fall through, especially regarding plans or relationships

由于资金不足，这个项目吹了。

yóu​yú zī​jīn bù​zú, zhè​ge xiàng​mù chuī le.

The project fell through due to insufficient funds.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)