晴天霹雳 — Chinese idiom
晴天霹雳
qíng tiān pī lì
Traditional: 晴天霹靂
Meaning
- lit. thunderclap from a clear sky
- fig. a bolt from the blue
Character by character
- 晴qíngclear weather, fine weather
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
- 霹pīthunderclap, crashing thunder
- 雳lìthunderclap, crashing thunder
Idioms sharing a character
- 雨过天晴 yǔ guò tiān qíng
- 一柱擎天 yī zhù qíng tiān
- 一步登天 yī bù dēng tiān
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì
- 不共戴天 bù gòng dài tiān
- 不啻天渊 bù chì tiān yuān
- 不见天日 bù jiàn tiān rì
- 九天仙女 jiǔ tiān xiān nǚ
- 九天揽月 jiǔ tiān lǎn yuè
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