浮云朝露 — Chinese idiom
浮云朝露
fú yún zhāo lù
Traditional: 浮雲朝露
Meaning
- floating clouds, morning dew ; fig. ephemeral nature of human existence
Character by character
- 浮fúto drift, to float; mobile, temporary, unstable; r
- 云yúncloud; to say, to speak
- 朝zhāoto face; direct, facing; dynasty; morning
- 露lùdew; leak; bare, exposed; to reveal, to show
Idioms sharing a character
- 人浮于事 rén fú yú shì
- 浮光掠影 fú guāng lüè yǐng
- 浮出水面 fú chū shuǐ miàn
- 浮家泛宅 fú jiā fàn zhái
- 轻浪浮薄 qīng làng fú bó
- 九霄云外 jiǔ xiāo yún wài
- 人云亦云 rén yún yì yún
- 判若云泥 pàn ruò yún ní
- 叱咤风云 chì zhà fēng yún
- 吞云吐雾 tūn yún tǔ wù
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