平步青云 (平步青雲)
píng bù qīng yún
Pinyin

Definition

平步青云 (平步青雲)
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píng bù qīng yún
  1. to rapidly go up in the world
  2. meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

公平
gōng píng
  1. 1 fair
  2. 2 impartial
同步
tóng bù
  1. 1 synchronous
  2. 2 to synchronize
  3. 3 to keep step with
和平
Hé píng
  1. 1 Heping district of Shenyang city 瀋陽市|沈阳市, Liaoning
  2. 2 Hoping township in Taichung county 臺中縣|台中县[Tái zhōng xiàn], Taiwan
平凡
píng fán
  1. 1 commonplace
  2. 2 ordinary
  3. 3 mediocre
平均
píng jūn
  1. 1 average
  2. 2 on average
  3. 3 evenly
  4. 4 in equal proportions

Idioms (20)

一步一个脚印
yī bù yī gè jiǎo yìn
  1. 1 one step, one footprint (idiom); steady progress
  2. 2 reliable
一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
一波未平，一波又起
yī bō wèi píng , yī bō yòu qǐ
  1. 1 before the first wave subsides, a new wave rises (idiom); a new problem arises before the old is solved
  2. 2 many twists and turns to a story
  3. 3 one thing after another
一碗水端平
yī wǎn shuǐ duān píng
  1. 1 lit. to hold a bowl of water level (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to be impartial
一马平川
yī mǎ píng chuān
  1. 1 flat land one could gallop straight across (idiom); wide expanse of flat country

Sample Sentences

啊？你是什么眼光？她也算漂亮？我看就是一个再普通不过的北京小姑娘了。只不过是运气好，遇上了贵人，才平步青云，一路爬到了好莱坞，捡了个头号中国女星的封号。哎，运气来了，挡都挡不住啊！
ǎ ？nǐ shì shénme yǎnguāng ？tā yě suàn piàoliang ？wǒ kàn jiùshì yī ge zài pǔtōng bùguò de Běijīng xiǎogūniang le 。zhǐ bùguò shì yùnqi hǎo ，yùshàng le guìrén ，cái píngbùqīngyún ，yīlù pádào le Hǎoláiwù ，jiǎn le ge tóuhào Zhōngguó nǚxīng de fēnghào 。āi ，yùnqi lái le ，dǎng dōu dǎngbuzhù a ！
Huh? What are you talking about? You call her beautiful? I think she's an extremely ordinary Beijing girl. It's just that she's had good luck. She bumped into the right high-level people. That's the only reason she had such a meteoric rise. On the way, she went to Hollywood and got a lucky number as the first Chinese star there. When you get that lucky, there's no stopping you.
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