up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession; no sooner one subsides, the next arises; repeating continuously; occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)
Characters in this word
4此
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
this; these
- Pinyin
- cǐ
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1017 of 2500
起
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
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
彼
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
that, those, (one) another
- Pinyin
- bǐ
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 21417 of 2500
伏
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
surname Fu
- Pinyin
- Fú
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 15619 of 2500