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打雷

dǎ léi

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

打雷 (dǎ léi) means "to rumble with thunder; clap of thunder". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 打雷 means

1. to rumble with thunder
2. clap of thunder

The characters in 打雷

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 雷léithunder; (bound form; military) mine, as in 地雷; (colloquial) to shock; to stun; to astound

Example sentences

• 外面打雷了，我很害怕！
  Wàimiàn dǎléi le, wǒ hěn hàipà!
  It's thundering outside. I'm really scared!

Words containing 打雷

• 干打雷，不下雨gān dǎ léi , bù xià yǔall thunder but no rain (idiom); a lot of noise but no action

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