此起彼落
cǐ qǐ bǐ luò
Pinyin

Definition

此起彼落
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cǐ qǐ bǐ luò
  1. to rise and fall in succession (idiom)
  2. repeating continuously

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

yī qǐ
  1. 1 in the same place
  2. 2 together
  3. 3 with
  4. 4 altogether (in total)
zài yī qǐ
  1. 1 together
rú cǐ
  1. 1 in this way
  2. 2 so
xiǎng qǐ
  1. 1 to recall
  2. 2 to think of
  3. 3 to call to mind
  1. 1 this
  2. 2 these

Idioms (20)

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
一病不起
yī bìng bù qǐ
  1. 1 to fall gravely ill, never to recover (idiom)
一落千丈
yī luò qiān zhàng
  1. 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
  3. 3 to take a dive
七零八落
qī líng bā luò
  1. 1 (idiom) everything broken and in disorder
不分彼此
bù fēn bǐ cǐ
  1. 1 to make no distinction between what's one's own and what's another's (idiom)
  2. 2 to share everything
  3. 3 to be on very intimate terms