What is he so angry about?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
大发雷霆
to be furious
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to be furious
02
to fly into a terrible rage
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 大发雷霆 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 大发雷霆 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Should he hear of your marriage, he will be furious.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 大发雷霆.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大发雷霆.
Directly before
- 会大发雷霆1
- 什么大发雷霆1
Directly after
- 大发雷霆啊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 大发雷霆
What does 大发雷霆 mean in Chinese?
大发雷霆 (dàfāléitíng) means to be furious.
How do you pronounce 大发雷霆?
大发雷霆 is pronounced dàfāléitíng.
Is 大发雷霆 an HSK word?
大发雷霆 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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