It's chucking it down.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
倾盆大雨
(idiom) a downpour; rain bucketing down
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
(idiom) a downpour; rain bucketing down
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 倾盆大雨 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 倾盆大雨 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
It's raining cats and dogs tonight.
They started in spite of the heavy rain.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 倾盆大雨.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 倾盆大雨.
Directly before
- 着倾盆大雨2
- 下倾盆大雨1
- 是倾盆大雨1
Directly after
- 倾盆大雨出发1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 倾盆大雨
What does 倾盆大雨 mean in Chinese?
倾盆大雨 (qīngpéndàyǔ) means (idiom) a downpour; rain bucketing down.
How do you pronounce 倾盆大雨?
倾盆大雨 is pronounced qīngpéndàyǔ.
Is 倾盆大雨 an HSK word?
倾盆大雨 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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