fēng qǐ cháo yǒngdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
lit. wind rises, tide bubbles up / turbulent times / violent development (idiom)
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Original source entry:

風起潮湧 风起潮涌 [feng1 qi3 chao2 yong3] /lit. wind rises, tide bubbles up/turbulent times/violent development (idiom)/

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Other forms in these source records: 風起潮湧

  • 风
    fēng

    wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL:陣|阵[zhèn],絲|丝[sī]

  • 起
    qǐ

    to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

  • 潮
    cháo

    tide / damp / moist / humid / fashionable / trendy / (coll.) inferior / substandard

  • 涌
    chōng

    (used in place names)

    yǒng

    to well up / to gush forth / to surge

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