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一帆风顺

yī fān fēng shùn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 4-character word Traditional 一帆風順

一帆风顺 (yī fān fēng shùn) means "propitious wind throughout the journey (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 一帆风顺 means

1. propitious wind throughout the journey (idiom)
2. plain sailing
3. to go smoothly
4. have a nice trip!

The characters in 一帆风顺

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 帆fānsail; Taiwan pr. fán, except 帆布
• 风fēngwind; news; style
• 顺shùnto obey; to follow; to arrange

Example sentences

• 我们路上一帆风顺，直到遇上暴风雪。
  Wǒmen lùshang yī fān fēng shùn, zhídào yùshàng bàofēngxuě.
  We made good time until we ran into a blizzard.

Where 一帆风顺 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yào–yī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yī fān fēng shùn correctly.
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