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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 风起云涌

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
风起云涌 fēng qǐ yún yǒng - to surge like a gathering storm (idiom)
- to grow by leaps and bounds

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 98,092 30,683 31,155

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
fēng- wind
- news
- style
- custom
- manner
- CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]
- 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
yún- (classical) to say
yún- surname Yun
- abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2nan2 Sheng3]
yún- cloud
- CL:朵[duo3]
chōng- (used in place names)
yǒng- variant of 湧|涌[yong3]
yǒng- to bubble up
- to rush forth

Other Words Containing 风起云涌

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
风起云涌 - - 98,092 30,683 31,155