思潮起伏 — Chinese idiom
思潮起伏
sī cháo qǐ fú
Meaning
- thoughts surging in one's mind
- different thoughts coming to mind
Character by character
- 思sīto think, to ponder, to consider; final particle
- 潮cháotide, current; damp, moist, wet
- 起qǐto begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up
- 伏fúto crouch, to crawl, to lie hidden, to conceal
Idioms sharing a character
- 一门心思 yī mén xīn si
- 三思而行 sān sī ér xíng
- 不假思索 bù jiǎ sī suǒ
- 不可思议 bù kě sī yì
- 刻骨相思 kè gǔ xiāng sī
- 孝思不匮 xiào sī bù kuì
- 居安思危 jū ān sī wēi
- 左思右想 zuǒ sī yòu xiǎng
- 思来想去 sī lái xiǎng qù
- 思前想后 sī qián xiǎng hòu
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