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乾打雷，不下雨
简 干打雷，不下雨 · 繁 乾打雷，不下雨Mandarin · pinyin gān dǎ léi , bù xià yǔ
Meanings
- all thunder but no rain (idiom)
- a lot of noise but no action
Characters in this entry
- 乾
- qián · gān · dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
- 打
- dǎ · strike, hit, beat; fight; attack
- 雷
- léi · thunder
- 不
- bù · no, not; un-; negative prefix
- 下
- xià · under, underneath, below; down; inferior; bring down
- 雨
- yǔ · rain; rainy; Kangxi radical 173
- 干
- gàn · oppose, offend; invade; dried
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