青天 qīngtiān
qīngtiān
set phrase
clear sky/blue sky
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Nature
Notes: 青天 is often a simile for positive conditions. For example, 拨云雾见青天 'to push away the clouds and mist and see the blue sky' (CC-CEDICT '青天'; Suyu, p. 53)
Contained in
- 青天白日 in broad daylight; in the middle of the day ; a white sun on a blue background
- 青天大老爷(青天大老爺) just and incorruptible official
- 青天霹雳(青天霹靂) thunder from a clear sky; a bolt from the blue
- 碧海青天 green sea, blue sky; sea and sky merge in one shade; loneliness of faithful widow
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- 第二回 Chapter 86 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
- 卷四十一 志第二十二: 儀衞上 常朝儀衛內外立仗、常行儀衛行仗 法駕黃麾仗 Volume 41 Treatises 22: Ceremonial Guards 1 - Inner and Outer Armed Guards of Honor in Regular Court Assemblies; Marching Armed Guards; Armed Imperial Command Carriage History of Jin 金史 — count: 2
- 《內篇‧逍遙遊》 Inner Chapters - Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease Zhuangzi 莊子 — count: 2
- 第三十一回 Chapter 31 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 40 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 卷二十九 Scroll 29 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
- 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1
- 卷四十三 列傳第十三 山濤 王戎 郭舒 樂廣 Volume 43 Biographies 13: Shan Tao; Wang Rong; Guo Shu; Yue Guang Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 1
- 第二十九回 Chapter 29 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 1
Collocations
- 青天老爷 (青天老爺) 青天老爺在上 — The Scholars 儒林外史, 第二十四回 Chapter 24 — count: 4
- 背负青天 (背負青天) 背負青天 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十八 人間訓 Chapter 18: The Human World — count: 3
- 负青天 (負青天) 並負青天 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷八十二 列傳第四十二 周朗 沈懷文 Volume 82 Biographies 42: Zhou Lang, Shen Huaiwen — count: 3
- 闚青天 (闚青天) 上闚青天 — Liezi 列子, 卷第二 黃帝篇 Chapter 2: The Yellow Emperor — count: 3
- 睹青天 (睹青天) 若披雲霧而睹青天也 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷四十三 列傳第十三 山濤 王戎 郭舒 樂廣 Volume 43 Biographies 13: Shan Tao; Wang Rong; Guo Shu; Yue Guang — count: 3
- 见青天 (見青天) 如撥雲霧而見青天 — Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 第六十五回 Chapter 65 — count: 2
- 青天王 (青天王) 青天王旗 — History of Jin 金史, 卷四十一 志第二十二: 儀衞上 常朝儀衛內外立仗、常行儀衛行仗 法駕黃麾仗 Volume 41 Treatises 22: Ceremonial Guards 1 - Inner and Outer Armed Guards of Honor in Regular Court Assemblies; Marching Armed Guards; Armed Imperial Command Carriage — count: 2