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此起彼落

cǐ qǐ bǐ luò

4-character word

What 此起彼落 means

1. to rise and fall in succession (idiom)
2. repeating continuously

The characters in 此起彼落

• 此cǐthis; these
• 起qǐto rise; to raise; to get up
• 彼bǐthat; those; (one) another
• 落luòto fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out

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