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晴天霹雳
qíng​tiān​pī​lì

a bolt from the blue

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
晴天霹雳 晴天霹靂 qíng​tiān​pī​lì
a bolt from the blue
(idiom) a thunderclap from a clear sky, meaning a sudden and shocking event or disaster

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.972 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 青天霹雳 qīng​tiān​pī​lì

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)