吹き込む

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 吹き込む is read as ふきこむ and is a verb meaning for wind or air to blow into a place or to record a voice, story, or music onto a device.
• Basic usage: Wind blowing in through a window gap appears in 窓の隙間から風が吹き込む, while recording an old story onto a device appears in 昔話を機械に吹き込む.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Intransitive inflow and transitive recording
  • With wind as the subject it means blowing inward; with sound as the object it means recording onto a device.
• Difference from 吹く
  • Compared with simply blowing, this verb adds inward direction or the result of putting recorded sound onto a device.