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喷

pēn

HSK 5 Character Traditional 噴

What 喷 means

1. to spout; to spurt; to spray; to puff
2. slangto criticize scathingly (esp. online)

Other readings

喷 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• pèn(of a smell) strong; peak season (of a crop); (classifier for the ordinal number of a crop

Example sentences

• 喷泉在那里。
  Pēnquán zài nàli.
  The fountain is over there.
• 我打喷嚏了。
  Wǒ dǎpēntì le.
  I am sneezing.
• 我止不住打喷嚏。
  I can't stop sneezing.
• 为什么你们在打喷嚏？
  Wèishénme nǐmen zài dǎpēntì?
  Why are you sneezing?
• 玛丽的包里有辣椒喷雾。
  Mary carries pepper spray in her purse.
• 火山突然喷发，造成了多人死亡。
  Huǒshān tūrán pēnfā, zàochéng le duō rén sǐwáng.
  The volcano erupted suddenly, killing many people.

Words starting with 喷

• 喷泉pēn quánfountain
• 喷出pēn chūspout; spray; belch
• 喷射pēn shèto spurt; to spray; to jet; spurt; spray; jet
• 喷嚏pēn tìsneeze
• 喷发pēn fāto erupt; an eruption
• 喷涌pēn yǒngto bubble out; to squirt
• 喷火pēn huǒto shoot flames; to erupt (of volcanoes); flaming (of flowers)
• 喷洒pēn sǎto spray; to sprinkle
• 喷水池pēn shuǐ chía fountain
• 喷雾pēn wùmist spray; atomizing
• 喷饭pēn fàn(colloquial) to burst out laughing
• 喷头pēn tóunozzle; spray-head
• 喷漆pēn qīto spray paint or lacquer; lacquer
• 喷香pèn xiāngfragrant; delicious
• 喷嘴pēn zuǐnozzle; extrusion nozzle
• 喷墨pēn mòink jet
• 喷子pēn zisprayer; spraying apparatus; (slang) firearm; Internet troll; hater
• 喷枪pēn qiāngspray gun
• 喷气pēn qìto spurt steam (or air etc)
• 喷池pēn chíspray pool; spray condensing pool
• 喷灯pēn dēngblowtorch; blowlamp
• 喷瓜pēn guāsquirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium)
• 喷射机pēn shè jījet plane; spraying machine
• 喷气式pēn qì shìjet-propelled

Words containing 喷

• 打喷嚏dǎ pēn tìto sneeze
• 香喷喷xiāng pēn pēndelicious; savory
• 井喷jǐng pēn(oil) blowout; surge; gush
• 含血喷人hán xuè pēn rénto make false accusations against sb (idiom)
• 狗血喷头gǒu xiě pēn tóutorrent of abuse (idiom)
• 血口喷人xuè kǒu pēn rénto spit blood (idiom); venomous slander; malicious attacks
• 防狼喷雾fáng láng pēn wùpepper spray
• 防喷罩fáng pēn zhàopop filter (audio engineering)
• 涡喷wō pēnturbojet
• 火焰喷射器huǒ yàn pēn shè qìflamethrower
• 不喜勿喷bù xǐ wù pēn(net slang) if you don't like it, don't flame; please don't attack me if you disagree
• 胡椒喷雾hú jiāo pēn wùpepper spray; OC spray
• 满嘴喷粪mǎn zuǐ pēn fènto talk bullshit
• 嚏喷tì pensneeze
• 打嚏喷dǎ tì pento sneeze
• 古根罕喷气推进研究中心Gǔ gēn hǎn Pēn qì Tuī jìn Yán jiū Zhōng xīnGuggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology…
• 涡轮喷气发动机wō lún pēn qì fā dòng jīturbojet

Characters built on 贲

These share the phonetic component 贲 (bēn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 愤fènindignant; anger; resentment
• 鲼fènany ray (fish) variety of Myliobatiformes order
• 偾fènto instigate; to ruin; to destroy

Characters that look like 喷

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 嗜shì(bound form) to have a strong liking for; to be addicted to
• 嗡wēng(onomatopoeia) buzz; hum; drone
• 啃kěnto gnaw; to nibble; to bite
• 啧zé(interj. of admiration or of disgust); to click one's tongue…
• 唷yō(interjection expressing surprise) Oh!; My!
• 嗳ǎito belch; (interj. of disapproval)

Sounds the same

Read pēn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 呠to spurt; to blow out; to puff out
• 歕old variant of 喷