吹风会 (chuī fēng huì) — advance briefing; background briefing (often off-the-record for journalists)

Definition

A 吹风会 is an informal press briefing where an official leaks or previews policy to journalists, often off the record. Unlike a 新闻发布会 (official press conference), it has no formal Q&A and signals the message is still being shaped.

noun
advance briefingbackground briefing (often off-the-record for journalists)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 吹风会。
    Zhèng fǔ jīn tiān xià wǔ zhào kāi le yí gè chuī fēng huì.
    The government held an advance briefing this afternoon.
  • 吹风会。
    Xǔ duō jì zhě dōu cān jiā le zhè ge chuī fēng huì.
    Many journalists attended this briefing.
  • 吹风会，。
    chuī fēng huì Shàng, fā yán rén tòu lù le yì xiē zhòng yào xìn xī.
    At the briefing, the spokesperson disclosed some important information.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

吹风give hints
吹chuīblow风fēngwind
动宾Verb + object
会huìmeeting

The meanings of 吹风, giving hints, and 会, a meeting, combine to name an advance briefing.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

吹 pairs 口 (mouth) with 欠 (blow), giving the picture of air being blown from the mouth.

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No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 會; 会 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
合合héto meet
Sound part声符shēngfú
𡆧
𡆧𡆧會huì
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

Traditional 會 pairs 合 (to meet) with 𡆧, an original form for ironware, to give the sound. The simplified 会 is a later shorthand, so its parts are not the original parts.

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