山雨欲来风满楼
shān​yǔ​yù​lái​fēng​mǎn​lóu

ominous portents

  • created sense approved 山雨欲来风满楼/山雨欲來風滿樓 · shān​yǔ​yù​lái​fēng​mǎn​lóu · ominous portents — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    山雨欲来风满楼 / 山雨欲來風滿樓

    shān​yǔ​yù​lái​fēng​mǎn​lóu

    ominous portents

    Literally "wind fills the tower before the mountain rain comes"; describes the tense atmosphere or warning signs that precede a major event. Originally from a Tang Dynasty poem by [[许浑|許渾|xu3 hun2]].

    山 (literal) → 山 · shān · mountain 雨 (literal) → 雨 · yǔ · rain 欲 (literal) → 欲 · yù · about to 来 (literal) → 来/來 · lái · to come 风 (literal) → 风/風 · fēng · wind 满 (literal) → 满/滿 · mǎn · entire 楼 (literal) → 楼/樓 · lóu · building

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense