乘风破浪 chéngfēngpòlàng to ride the wind and waves Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 乘风破浪 乘風破浪 chéngfēngpòlàng to ride the wind and waves (of a ship) To sail with the wind and cut through the waves to have great ambitions (idiom) To brave hardships and advance courageously; to develop rapidly and vigorously Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.558 per million Cross-References Referenced by 破浪 pòlàngSynonym 长风破浪 chángfēngpòlàng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
乘风破浪 乘風破浪 chéngfēngpòlàng to ride the wind and waves (of a ship) To sail with the wind and cut through the waves to have great ambitions (idiom) To brave hardships and advance courageously; to develop rapidly and vigorously Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.558 per million Cross-References Referenced by 破浪 pòlàngSynonym 长风破浪 chángfēngpòlàng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)