Kanji N3

吹: blow, breathe, puff

吹 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning blow, breathe, puff, written with 7 strokes. It is read スイ (on) and ふく (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 吹く (ふく, to blow) and 吹雪 (ふぶき, snow storm).

吹

Meanings

  • blow
  • breathe
  • puff
  • emit
  • smoke
Strokes7
JLPT levelN3
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1133 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • スイ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • ふく

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Your turn: draw stroke 1 of 7. Start at the dot.

Common words with 吹

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 吹くふく

    to blow (of the wind)

    JLPT N5
  • 吹雪ふぶき

    snow storm; blizzard

    JLPT N2
  • 吹奏すいそう

    playing (a wind instrument); blowing

    JLPT N1
  • 息吹いぶき

    breath

  • 吹き出すふきだす

    to spout out; to spurt out; to gush out

  • 吹き出物ふきでもの

    (skin) eruption; rash; pimple; spot; acne; boil

  • 吹き飛ぶふきとぶ

    to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away

  • 吹き込むふきこむ

    to blow in (of wind, rain, etc.)

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.