When I left home in my younger days, grandpa always told me, "May you have an upwind journey!" It was only when I grew up did I realise that I was the high-flying kite in his eyes.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
逆风
to go against the wind
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to go against the wind
02
contrary wind
03
a headwind
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 逆风 actually appears in real sentences.
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No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 逆风.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 逆风.
Directly before
- 一路逆风1
Directly after
- 逆风的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 逆风
What does 逆风 mean in Chinese?
逆风 (nìfēng) means to go against the wind.
How do you pronounce 逆风?
逆风 is pronounced nìfēng.
Is 逆风 an HSK word?
逆风 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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