扑面而来 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 撲面而來 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. pūmiànérlái ㄆㄨ ㄇㄧㄢˋ ㄦˊ ㄌㄞˊ lit. sth hits one in the face directly in one's face sth assaults the senses blatant (advertising) eye-catching assaults the nostrils a smell Character by character 扑(pū)throw oneself at 面(miàn)face 而(ér)and 来(lái)come A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT