鼓吹

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Chinese

convex; drum; to rouse
convex; drum; to rouse; to beat
 
to blow; blast; puff
to blow; blast; puff; boast; brag; end in failure
 
simp. and trad.
(鼓吹) 		鼓 吹
Literally: “drumming and blowing”.

Pronunciation 1

Verb

鼓吹

  1. to promote enthusiastically; to preach
  2. to brag
Synonyms
  • (to promote):
  • (to brag):
See also

Pronunciation 2

Noun

鼓吹

  1. a loud wind and percussion ensemble in traditional Chinese music, usually featuring suona, drums, gongs and cymbals
  2. (Taiwanese Hokkien) suona (a type of woodwind instrument)
  3. (Xiamen, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien) trumpet; horn (wind instrument)
  4. (literary) music
Synonyms
  • (suona):
Dialectal synonyms of 嗩吶 (“suona (musical instrument)”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 嗩吶
Northeastern Mandarin Beijing 嗩吶, 鼻兒
Taiwan 嗩吶
Singapore 嗩吶
Central Plains Mandarin Wanrong 樂人
Xi'an 嗩吶
Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan) 嗩吶子
Southwestern Mandarin Chengdu 撒拉子, 哩哩吶
Guiyang 嗩吶
Liuzhou 咪嗎, 嗩吶
Cantonese Guangzhou 啲咑, 哬哚
Hong Kong 啲咑, 嗩吶
Dongguan 啲咑
Yangjiang 啲咑
Gan Lichuan 吹打, 嗩吶
Pingxiang 喇叭
Hakka Yudu 喇叭
Shicheng 哈噠
Shangyou (Shexi) 吹打
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 笛仔
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 笛仔
Pingtung (Wuluo, Ligang; S. Sixian) 吹笛
Kaohsiung (Meinong; S. Sixian) 笛仔
Kaohsiung (Shanlin; S. Sixian) 笛仔
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 笛仔
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 笛, 啲咑
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 笛仔, 笛
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 嗒嘀
Huizhou Jixi 大親
Jin Taiyuan (Jinyuan) 咪咪
Xinzhou 三號
Northern Min Jian'ou 啲嗒仔 soprano, 喇叭 alto or bass
Eastern Min Fuzhou 𫪦咑
Southern Min Xiamen 噯仔
Quanzhou 噯仔
Zhangzhou 嗒知嘟
Taipei 鼓吹
New Taipei (Sanxia) 鼓吹
Kaohsiung 鼓吹
Yilan 鼓吹
Changhua (Lukang) 鼓吹
Taichung 鼓吹
Tainan 鼓吹
Hsinchu 鼓吹
Kinmen 鼓吹
Penghu (Magong) 鼓吹
Chaozhou 啲咑
Shantou 啲咑
Jieyang 啲咑
Puning 啲咑
Haifeng 鼓手
Leizhou 笛
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 哬哚
Wu Shanghai 嗩吶
Derived terms

Pronunciation 3

Verb

鼓吹

  1. (Puxian Min) to speak ill of someone behind their back

References

  • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 , editor (2021), “鼓吹”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 236.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
鼓 吹
こ
Grade: S 		すい
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

鼓(こ)吹(すい) • (kosui) ←こすい (kosui)?

  1. encouragement

Verb

鼓(こ)吹(すい)する • (kosui suru) ←こすい (kosui)?suru (stem 鼓(こ)吹(すい)し (kosui shi), past 鼓(こ)吹(すい)した (kosui shita))

  1. to encourage

Conjugation

Conjugation of "鼓吹する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 鼓吹し こすいし kosui shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 鼓吹し こすいし kosui shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 鼓吹する こすいする kosui suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 鼓吹する こすいする kosui suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 鼓吹すれ こすいすれ kosui sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 鼓吹せよ¹
鼓吹しろ² 		こすいせよ¹
こすいしろ² 		kosui seyo¹
kosui shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 鼓吹される こすいされる kosui sareru
Causative 鼓吹させる
鼓吹さす 		こすいさせる
こすいさす 		kosui saseru
kosui sasu
Potential 鼓吹できる こすいできる kosui dekiru
Volitional 鼓吹しよう こすいしよう kosui shiyō
Negative 鼓吹しない こすいしない kosui shinai
Negative continuative 鼓吹せず こすいせず kosui sezu
Formal 鼓吹します こすいします kosui shimasu
Perfective 鼓吹した こすいした kosui shita
Conjunctive 鼓吹して こすいして kosui shite
Hypothetical conditional 鼓吹すれば こすいすれば kosui sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
鼓吹

Verb

鼓吹

  1. chữ Hán form of cổ xúy (“encourage”).
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