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大雨

dà yǔ

2-character word Measure word 场

What 大雨 means

1. heavy rain

The characters in 大雨

• 大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐
• 雨yǔrain

Example sentences

• 大雨如注。
  It is raining cats and dogs.
• 昨天下大雨。
  We had a heavy rain yesterday.
• 昨晚下大雨。
  There was a heavy rain last night.
• 大雨使河水泛滥。
  Dàyǔ shǐ héshuǐ fànlàn.
  The rivers were flooded by the heavy rain.
• 下了三小时大雨。
  It has been raining heavily for three hours.

Words containing 大雨

• 倾盆大雨qīng pén dà yǔ(idiom) a downpour; rain bucketing down
• 瓢泼大雨piáo pō dà yǔdownpour (idiom)
• 雷大雨小léi dà yǔ xiǎolit. much thunder but little rain; fig. a lot of talk but little action…

Sounds the same

Read dà yǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 大禹Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods
• 大宇Daewoo (Korean conglomerate)