Tom is exaggerating.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
吹嘘
to brag
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to brag
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 吹嘘 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吹嘘 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He bragged about the killing.
I'm tired of listening to his boasts.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 吹嘘.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吹嘘.
Directly before
- 他吹嘘2
- 是吹嘘1
- 在吹嘘1
Directly after
- 吹嘘自己1
- 吹嘘与1
- 吹嘘这场1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 吹嘘
What does 吹嘘 mean in Chinese?
吹嘘 (chuīxū) means to brag.
How do you pronounce 吹嘘?
吹嘘 is pronounced chuīxū.
Is 吹嘘 an HSK word?
吹嘘 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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