流鼻血

liú bíxiě

verb

Meanings

HSK 1

我早上起床的时候流鼻血了。

Wǒ zǎoshang qǐchuáng de shíhou liú bíxiě le.

I had a nosebleed when I got up this morning.

HSK 6

他看到女神的照片，开玩笑说自己快要流鼻血了。

Tā kàndào nǚshén de zhàopiàn, kāi wánxiào shuō zìjǐ kuàiyào liú bíxiě le.

Seeing a photo of his dream girl, he joked that he was about to get a nosebleed.

usage

血 is read xiě here, its colloquial reading; 鼻血 on its own and in writing usually takes the formal xuè, and liú bíxuè is heard too.

culture

In anime and manga a nosebleed is the classic sign that a character has seen something sexy, so 流鼻血 jokingly means being smitten by someone's looks.

流 liú

鼻 bí

血 xuè