1. wind
2. news
3. style
4. custom
5. manner

classifiers: 陣, 絲

1. (obsolete) to blow; to fan
2. (obsolete) to influence; to reform a misguided person through persuasion
3. to blow; to fan
4. to influence; to reform a misguided person through persuasion

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 諷 /讽 (fěng, “to advise in mild tone and indirect manner”)
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 諷 /讽 (fěng, “to criticize; to mock; to ridicule; to satire”)
3. alternative form of 諷 /讽 (fěng, “to advise in mild tone and indirect manner”)
4. alternative form of 諷 /讽 (fěng, “to criticize; to mock; to ridicule; to satire”)

1. from; through; via
2. (bound form) to follow
3. (bound form) to obey
4. (bound form) to engage in (an activity)
5. (used before a negative) ever
6. (bound form) (Taiwan pr. zòng) retainer; attendant
7. (bound form) (Taiwan pr. zòng) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate
8. (bound form) (Taiwan pr. zòng) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor

1. the East; the Orient
2. two-character surname Dongfang

1. to blow
2. to play a wind instrument
3. to blast
4. to puff
5. to boast
6. to brag
7. to end in failure
8. to fall through

1. (literary) wind
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) wind instruments; music performed with wind instruments
3. wind
4. wind instruments; music performed with wind instruments

1. to come
2. (used as a substitute for a more specific verb)
3. hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來 huílai)
4. ever since (as in 自古以來 zìgǔyǐlái)
5. for the past (amount of time)
6. (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 來世 láishì)
7. (between two verbs) in order to
8. (after a round number) approximately
9. (used after 得 dé to indicate possibility, as in 談得來 tándelái, or after 不 bù to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來 chībulái)