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暴雨

bào yǔ

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 场、阵

暴雨 (bào yǔ) means "torrential rain; rainstorm". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 暴雨 means

1. torrential rain
2. rainstorm

The characters in 暴雨

• 暴bàosudden; violent; cruel
• 雨yǔrain

Example sentences

• 今天又下暴雨了。
  It poured down again today.
• 昨天下了一场大暴雨。
  Yesterday it rained heavily.
• 强风暗示着即将到来的暴雨。
  Qiángfēng ànshì zhe jíjiāng dàolái de bàoyǔ.
  The strong wind indicates that a storm is coming.
• 狂风暴雨造成她无法准时抵达。
  Kuángfēngbàoyǔ zàochéng tā wúfǎ zhǔnshí dǐdá.
  The storm prevented her from arriving on time.
• 因为暴雨，河水暴涨漫过河岸。
  Yīnwèi bàoyǔ, héshuǐ bàozhǎng màn guo hé'àn.
  Due to the rainstorm, the river water surged over the river banks.
• 我很庆幸我们没有去那儿，因为当时那儿有局部大暴雨。
  Wǒ hěn qìngxìng wǒmen méiyǒu qù nàr, yīnwèi dāngshí nàr yǒujú bù dà bàoyǔ.
  I'm glad we didn't go there because there were some localized heavy rain showers.

Words containing 暴雨

• 狂风暴雨kuáng fēng bào yǔ(idiom) howling wind and torrential rain; furious storm…

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