I've had enough of your boasts.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
自吹自擂
to blow one's own trumpet (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to blow one's own trumpet (idiom)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 自吹自擂 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 自吹自擂 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He boasted of having won the first prize.
This may sound like blowing my own horn, but ...
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 自吹自擂.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 自吹自擂.
Directly before
- 就自吹自擂1
- 在自吹自擂1
- 的自吹自擂1
Directly after
- 自吹自擂了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 自吹自擂
What does 自吹自擂 mean in Chinese?
自吹自擂 (zìchuīzìléi) means to blow one's own trumpet (idiom).
How do you pronounce 自吹自擂?
自吹自擂 is pronounced zìchuīzìléi.
Is 自吹自擂 an HSK word?
自吹自擂 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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