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此起彼伏

cǐ qǐ bǐ fú

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

此起彼伏 (cǐ qǐ bǐ fú) means "up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession; no sooner one subsides, the next arises; repeating continuo". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 此起彼伏 means

1. up here, down there (idiom); to rise and fall in succession
2. no sooner one subsides, the next arises
3. repeating continuously
4. occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)

The characters in 此起彼伏

• 此cǐthis; these
• 起qǐto rise; to raise; to get up
• 彼bǐthat; those; (one) another
• 伏fúto lean over; to fall (go down); to hide (in ambush)

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