風聲鶴唳
fēng​shēng​hè​lì

extremely jittery

  • created reference approved 风声鹤唳/風聲鶴唳 → 草木皆兵 (see) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    风声鹤唳 / 風聲鶴唳 fēng​shēng​hè​lì

    草木皆兵 cǎo​mù​jiē​bīng

    see

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 风声鹤唳/風聲鶴唳 · fēng​shēng​hè​lì · extremely jittery — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    风声鹤唳 / 風聲鶴唳

    fēng​shēng​hè​lì

    extremely jittery

    To panic at the slightest move or be extremely nervous; literally "the sighing of the wind and the cry of cranes," from a story of defeated soldiers who mistook these natural sounds for the approaching enemy army

    风声 (literal) → 风声/風聲 · fēng​shēng · sound of wind 鹤唳 (literal) → 鹤唳/鶴唳 · hè​lì · cries of cranes

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

    created sense