Entry
无wú风fēng不bù起qǐ浪làng

  1. lit. without wind there cannot be waves (idiom); there must be a reason; no smoke without fire

    trad. 無風不起浪

Also written 無風不起浪【wú fēng bù qǐ làng】

Characters in this word

5
起
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to rise, to raise, to get up, to set out, to start, to appear, to launch, to initiate (action), to draft, to establish, to get (from a depot or counter), verb suffix, to start, starting from (a time, place, price etc), classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance, classifier for groups: batch, group

Pinyin
qǐ
Strokes
10
Frequency
687 of 2500
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