吹 – blow, breathe, puff

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The kanji 吹 means blow, breathe, puff, emit, smoke. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is スイ (sui); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is ふ.く (fuku). It is written with 7 strokes, under radical 口 (no. 30).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	スイ	sui
Kun’yomi	ふ.く	fuku

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 口 (Kangxi radical 30). Components: 欠・口.

Words using 吹

吹くふくto blow (of the wind)吹雪ふぶきsnow storm吹奏すいそうplaying (a wind instrument)

Example sentences

あの日は強い風が吹いていました。

There was a strong wind that day.

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ローズはしゃぼん玉を吹いていた。

Rose was blowing bubbles.

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テッドはトランペットを吹くのが好きです。

Ted likes playing the trumpet.

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Kanji with the same radical

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