Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「青天霹靂」. Explanation below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「青天霹靂」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Thunderbolt: loud thunder. Thunder roared in a clear sky. A metaphor for a sudden, unexpected, shocking event.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qīng tiān pī lì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ching1/cheng1 tin1 pik1 lik1
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
