Read Edit View history 风声鹤唳 fēngshēnghèlì extremely jittery Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 风声鹤唳 風聲鶴唳 fēngshēnghèlì 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 Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.403 per million Cross-References See 草木皆兵 cǎomùjiēbīngSynonym 杯弓蛇影 bēigōngshéyǐng溃不成军 kuìbùchéngjūnAntonym 所向披靡 suǒxiàngpīmǐ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
风声鹤唳 風聲鶴唳 fēngshēnghèlì 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 Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.403 per million Cross-References See 草木皆兵 cǎomùjiēbīngSynonym 杯弓蛇影 bēigōngshéyǐng溃不成军 kuìbùchéngjūnAntonym 所向披靡 suǒxiàngpīmǐ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)