吹
Meaning
- to blow
- to play a wind instrument
- to blast
Example sentence
他喜欢吹牛。
He likes to throw the bull.
The character 吹
吹 is 口, a mouth, beside 欠, a figure breathing out. To blow, and to play anything you blow into. Colloquially it is also to boast, and 吹了 says a plan or a couple has come to nothing.