thunder

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
雨 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rain

辟 sound component

  Sound component

  

law

Definitions

 

thunder, crashing thunder; clap of thunder

Most common words with 霹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

霹雳

clap of thunder

霹雳舞

to breakdance

晴天霹雳

thunder from a clear sky (idiom); a bolt from the blue

clap of thunder

霹雷

thunderbolt

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.8901% of movies

2914th most common character in movies

3438th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

21

Unicode

U+9739


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