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HSK
to rain
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雨* | 雨* | *雨
HSK 1
torrential rain / rainstorm / CL: 場|场, 陣|阵
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雨* | 雨* | *雨
(literary) to rain / (of rain, snow etc) to fall / to precipitate / to wet
(idiom) a downpour; rain bucketing down
rainstorm / storm / tempest
HSK 6
timely rain / (fig.) timely assistance; timely help
drizzle; light rain / (fig.) mere trifle; sth that has only a weak effect
wind and rain / the elements / (fig.) trials and hardships
HSK 7-9
to brave the rain
violent wind and rainstorm / hurricane / tempest
HSK 7-9
East Asian rainy season (in late spring and early summer)
torrents of rain (idiom)
heavy rain / CL: 場|场
violent rain (e.g. due to monsoon or typhoon) / cloudburst
lit. spring wind and rain (idiom); fig. the long-term influence of a solid education
meteor shower
trials and tribulations / ups and downs
HSK 7-9
to drip with sweat / sweat poured off (him)
lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom) / to believe rumors / to be credulous
to give shelter from the wind and rain / to keep out the elements
precipitation / rainfall
(idiom) howling wind and torrential rain; furious storm / (fig.) (idiom) difficult circumstances; dangerous situation
sunshower
all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action
spring rain / gift from above
overcast and rainy
to call the wind and summon the rain (idiom); to exercise magical powers / fig. to stir up troubles
HSK 7-9
to go through thick and thin (idiom)
thundershower
acid rain
light rain / drizzle
Orionids / Orionid meteor shower
to get whatever one wants / to have everything going one's way
strong wind and heavy rain (idiom)
to get wet in the rain
freezing rain
lit. foul wind and bloody rain (idiom) / fig. reign of terror / carnage
to take shelter from the rain
to drip with sweat / sweat poured off (him)
welcome fall of rain / seasonable rain
lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships; miserable circumstances
(dialect) to 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. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom)
hail of bullets
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
old friends
prolonged spell of rainy weather
rain or shine
lit. like raindrops on a pear blossom (idiom) / fig. tear-stained face of a beauty
(idiom) soft, misty rain
fine rain / drizzle / poem by Tang poet Li Shangyin 李商隱|李商隐
drizzle / fine rain
immobilized by rain
downpour (idiom)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
thundershower (Tw)
shower (rain)
shower
(HK) torrential rain ≥ 70 mm per hour (highest level in the rainstorm warning system)
to protect from the rain
strategic experts as thick as rain (idiom); no shortage of advisers on strategy
forest of spear, rain of arrows
meteorite shower
autumn rain
fine drizzle
rain of blood / heavy rain colored by loess sandstorm
to drizzle; to rain lightly / (fig.) (coll.) to give (sb) a heads-up; to break (some bad news) gently; to scold mildly
lit. wind and rain sweeping through the town (idiom) / fig. a big scandal / an uproar / the talk of the town
thunderstorm
excessive rain
Guyu or Grain Rain, 6th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 20th April-4th May
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
lit. see the wind and assume it will rain (idiom); fig. gullible / to believe whatever people suggest
morning rain
(dialect) drizzle; light rain
misty rain / drizzle
lit. cloud and rain / fig. sexual intercourse
variant of 淫雨
variant of 梅雨


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