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


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