Chinese symbol for “downpour”
倾盆大雨
qīng pén dà yǔ
Traditional: 傾盆大雨
(idiom) a downpour; rain bucketing down
The closest CC-CEDICT match for downpour is 倾盆大雨 (qīng pén dà yǔ), defined as: (idiom) a downpour; rain bucketing down.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “downpour”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 倾盆 (傾盆) | qīng pén | a downpour; rain bucketing down |
| 瓢泼大雨 (瓢潑大雨) | piáo pō dà yǔ | downpour (idiom) |
| 雨幕 | yǔ mù | curtain of rain; downpour |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 倾盆大雨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 倾向 (傾向) | qīng xiàng | trend; tendency |
| 倾斜 (傾斜) | qīng xié | to incline; to lean |
| 倾听 (傾聽) | qīng tīng | to listen attentively |
| 右倾 (右傾) | yòu qīng | right-wing; reactionary |
| 倾诉 (傾訴) | qīng sù | to say everything (that is on one's mind) |
| 倾倒 (傾倒) | qīng dǎo | to topple over; to fall over; to greatly admire; to prostrate oneself before |
| 盆地 | pén dì | (geography) basin; depression |
| 盆栽 | pén zāi | to grow (a plant) in a pot; potted plant (sometimes refers specifically to a bonsai plant) |
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 下雨 | xià yǔ | to rain |
See also: Japanese symbol for “downpour”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.