The friend runs along side the water, encouraging the belching by returning a few herself. (Hat in the Wind)

as a component “几字旁”

component derived from: 风fēng wind/windstorm

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But, the wind isn’t through with her yet. With a whoosh from behind, it ascends the steps to the porch and knocks over the bench by the door.

The girls laugh as they tie up the “ship” together and walk arm-in-arm to the friend’s house. The girl feels a drop of rain and the ordinary wind that comes with it. She wonders where the naughty wind that followed her has gone.

The wind carries the hat bouncing and dipping until it hits the edge of a pit at the far end of the field, falls in and skids to a stop, kicking up the soil. (Hat in the Wind)

seamen belching on the ship

Her friend laughs and says, “My ship’s come in! With a smoke stack that belches!” (Hat in the Wind)

Grandma, who was sitting on the bench, but is now flat on her behind, curses the wind—twice!

trying to catch something that is being blown around is like having combat with a whirlwind

Hunger Games: the tiny people line up for a chance to feel the mountain wind but a taskmaster turns them away

The tiny scene he is watching is put in motion by the wind. Tiny ants have lined up in a queue, and he is ordering them to march up a mountain of sand, but it is really the wind who is taskmaster, blowing them up and over the hill. (Hat in the Wind)

Taskmaster has thought of everything! There will be a tiny display on top of the mountain of a wedding cake. Tiny figurines: the wedding queue (you, the groom and all your attendants) with a hidden fan that will blow one puff of wind every 15 seconds to rustle your tiny veil.” (Wedding Planner)

Somebody dodges behind a door (duǒ) and only their earlobe is showing. Alternatively: 身 + 几 + 木 somebody + wind + tree; The wind slips and slides, darts and dodges, around somebody, behind a tree.

wind blows the clouds and tree shades the flowers

And the wind does have what it takes to bring change and delight. It can shape a cloud to look like a flower or shake a tree into a shower of leaves.

alternatively: 舟 + 亠 + 几 boat + top hat + wind, She puts the top hat on her head, puts the oars in the water, and navigates her boat downstream, pushed by the wind. (Hat in the Wind)

The little boy said, “Wind, I appoint you wind-master over these knights. I have proof now that you have what it takes!”

The wind passes the farmhouse and pushes straight for the vegetable garden where it meets the farmer’s scarecrow. Scarecrows aren’t supposed to get scared, but the wind surprises this one as it swirls up and under his top hat. Away the hat goes in the wind!

"Up ahead, she sees her friend and opens her mouth to call out when instead, out comes a belch!" (Hat in the Wind)

a wooden windmill machine

ear listens to the wind rustling the trees

"Our story starts in the wheat field. It has already been harvested into sheaves and the first cold wind of the season arrives in a storm. It blows against the sheaves, but they are tied tight, so the wind has to go up and over them as it passes through the field." (Hat in the Wind)