晴天霹雳
qíngtiān-pīlìTraditional 晴天霹靂
a bolt from the blue
Every meaning
qíngtiān-pīlì
- a bolt from the blue
Its characters
- 晴qíngclear; sunny (weather)
- 天tiānsky
- 霹pīthunderclap (as in 霹雳)
- 雳lìthunderclap (as in 霹雳)
Words with 晴
Words with 天
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chengyu from the Xinhua idiom list, the most common first.