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大旱望云霓

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5-character word Traditional 大旱望雲霓

What 大旱望云霓 means

1. (lit.) looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom)
2. (fig.) to yearn for relief from a desperate situation

The characters in 大旱望云霓

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 旱hàndrought
• 望wàngfull moon; to hope; to expect
• 云yún(classical) to say
• 霓níJapanese cicada; old variant of 霓