(lit.) looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom); (fig.) to yearn for relief from a desperate situation
trad. 大旱望雲霓
Also written 大旱望雲霓【dà hàn wàng yún ní】
Characters in this word
5大
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big; large; great, older (than another person), eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]), greatly; freely; fully, (dialect) father, (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- Pinyin
- dà
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 199 of 2500
旱
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drought
- Pinyin
- hàn
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 41219 of 2500
望
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full moon, to hope, to expect, to visit, to gaze (into the distance), to look towards, towards
- Pinyin
- wàng
- Strokes
- 11
- Frequency
- 4847 of 2500
云
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(classical) to say
- Pinyin
- yún
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 7285 of 2500
霓
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Japanese cicada, old variant of 霓[ni2]
- Pinyin
- ní
- Traditional
- 蜺
- Strokes
- 16
- Frequency
- 43517 of 2500