云雾 (雲霧) yún wù
yún wù
set phrase
clouds and mist
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Nature
Notes: 云雾 are often a simile for gloomy conditions. For example, 拨云雾见青天 'to push away the clouds and mist and see the blue sky' (CC-CEDICT '雲霧'; Guoyu '雲霧'; Suyu, p. 53)
Contained in
- 堕云雾中(墮雲霧中) to become lost in a fog; at a complete loss
- 云雾径迹(雲霧徑跡) cloud track (trace of ionizing particle in cloud chamber)
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- 卷十二 Scroll 12 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 難勢第四十 Chapter 40: Difficulties with a Position of Power Han Feizi 韓非子 — count: 3
- 卷23 志第18 五行下 Volume 23 Treatises 18: Five Elements 2 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 3
- 卷二 Scroll 2 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 3
- 第四十五回 Chapter 45 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 第五十五回 Chapter 55 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 卷十 Scroll 10 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 2
- 卷一百二十一 志第七十四 禮二十四 Volume 121 Treatises 74: Rites 24 History of Song 宋史 — count: 2
- 第三十九回 Chapter 39 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
- 卷八 魏書八 二公孫陶四張傳 Volume 8: Book of Wei 8 - Biographies of the two Gongsuns, Tao, and the four Zhangs Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 2
Collocations
- 云雾晦 (雲霧晦) 雲霧晦冥 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷六 帝紀第六 中宗元帝 肅宗明帝 Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Yuan; Emperor Ming — count: 7
- 起云雾 (起雲霧) 山阿起雲霧 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷二十五 Scroll 25 — count: 4
- 兴云雾 (興雲霧) 能興雲霧而遊其中 — Xunzi 荀子, 勸學篇第一 Chapter 1: An Exhortation to Study — count: 4
- 披云雾 (披雲霧) 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: 4
- 干云雾 (乾雲霧) 干雲霧而上達 — Wenxuan 文選, 卷二 Scroll 2 — count: 4
- 拨云雾 (撥雲霧) 使備如撥雲霧而睹青天 — Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義, 第三十八回 Chapter 38 — count: 3
- 云雾杳冥 (雲霧杳冥) 雲霧杳冥 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷九十四 列傳第六十四 隱逸 Volume 94 Biographies 64: Hermits and Recluses — count: 3
- 云雾起 (雲霧起) 雲霧起 — Book of Northern Qi 北齊書, 卷三二 補列傳第二四 陸法和 王琳 Volume 32 Biographies 24: Lu Fahe; Wang Lin (general) — count: 3
- 云雾四 (雲霧四) 山上雲霧四合 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷一 本紀第一 武帝上 Volume 1: Emperor Wu 1 — count: 3
- 腾云雾 (騰雲霧) 騰雲霧而窈冥兮 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷72 陽尼 賈思伯 李叔虎 路恃慶 房亮 曹世表 潘永基 朱元旭 Volume 72: Yang Ni, Jia Sibo, Li Shuhu, Lu Shiqing, Fang Liang, Cao Shibiao, Pan Yongji, Zhu Yuanxu — count: 2