It was like a bolt out of the blue.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
晴天霹雳
lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom)
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom)
02
fig. a bolt from the blue
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 晴天霹雳 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 晴天霹雳 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Why did you wake me up to tell me something that big? Now, I'll never be able to concentrate on my work!
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 晴天霹雳.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 晴天霹雳.
Directly before
- 如此晴天霹雳1
Directly after
- 晴天霹雳的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 晴天霹雳
What does 晴天霹雳 mean in Chinese?
晴天霹雳 (qíngtiānpīlì) means lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom).
How do you pronounce 晴天霹雳?
晴天霹雳 is pronounced qíngtiānpīlì.
Is 晴天霹雳 an HSK word?
晴天霹雳 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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