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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雨* | 雨* | *雨
HSK 1
to rain
HSK 1
torrential rain / rainstorm / CL: 場|场, 陣|阵
HSK 6
rainstorm / storm / tempest
HSK 6
wind and rain / the elements / (fig.) trials and hardships
HSK 7-9
to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers / fig. to stir up troubles
HSK 7-9
violent wind and rainstorm / hurricane / tempest
HSK 7-9
trials and tribulations / ups and downs
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雨* | 雨* | *雨
(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet
precipitation / rainfall
heavy rain / CL: 場|场
light rain / drizzle
thunderstorm
to get wet in the rain
to brave the rain
misty rain / drizzle
fine rain / drizzle / poem by Tang poet Li Shangyin 李商隱|李商隐
overcast and rainy
freezing rain
East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer)
meteor shower
lit. spring wind and rain (idiom); fig. the long-term influence of a solid education
to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground / tricky and inconstant / to make love
lit. cloud and rain / fig. sexual intercourse
acid rain
spring rain / gift from above
rain or shine
lit. foul wind and bloody rain (idiom) / fig. reign of terror / carnage
a downpour; rain bucketing down / (fig.) to be overwhelmed (with work or things to study)
autumn rain
rain of blood / heavy rain colored by loess sandstorm
Guyu or Grain Rain, 6th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 20th April-4th May
drizzle; light rain / (fig.) mere trifle; sth that has only a weak effect
to drip with sweat / sweat poured off (him)
(idiom) howling wind and torrential rain; furious storm / (fig.) (idiom) difficult circumstances; dangerous situation
welcome fall of rain / seasonable rain
old friends
lit. wind and rain sweeping through the town (idiom) / fig. a big scandal / an uproar / the talk of the town
hail of bullets
strong wind and heavy rain (idiom)
downpour (idiom)
torrents of rain (idiom)
violent rain (e.g. due to monsoon or typhoon) / cloudburst
lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships; miserable circumstances
to drip with sweat / sweat poured off (him)
to protect from the rain
variant of 梅雨
drizzle / fine rain
to take shelter from the rain
(dialect) to rain
lit. like raindrops on a pear blossom (idiom) / fig. tear-stained face of a beauty
sunshower
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
fine drizzle
variant of 淫雨
thundershower (Tw)
prolonged spell of rainy weather
to go through thick and thin (idiom)
to give shelter from the wind and rain / to keep out the elements
(idiom) soft, misty rain
to get whatever one wants / to have everything going one's way
thundershower
to drizzle; to rain lightly / (fig.) (coll.) to give (sb) a heads-up; to break (some bad news) gently; to scold mildly
morning rain
rain on Mt Ba (idiom); lonely in a strange land / Evening Rain, 1980 movie about the Cultural Revolution
lit. on hearing wind, to say rain / to agree uncritically with whatever people say / to parrot other people's words / to chime in with others
lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom) / to believe rumors / to be credulous
meteorite shower
all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action
timely rain / (fig.) timely assistance; timely help
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
forest of spear, rain of arrows
lit. to comb one's hair in the wind and wash it in the rain (idiom) / fig. to work in the open regardless of the weather
excessive rain
(dialect) drizzle; light rain
Orionids / Orionid meteor shower
lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom)
lit. see the wind and assume it will rain (idiom); fig. gullible / to believe whatever people suggest
strategic experts as thick as rain (idiom); no shortage of advisers on strategy
immobilized by rain
shower (rain)
shower


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