屋漏偏逢连夜雨
Traditional form:
屋漏偏逢連夜雨
Pinyin (reading):
wūlòupiānféngliányèyǔ
Definitions:
- when it rains, it pours (idiom)
Characters:
- 屋 - building, house, shelter; room
- 漏 - to leak, to drip; hour glass; funnel
- 偏 - slanting, inclined; prejudiced
- 逢 - to happen to meet; chance meeting, coincidence
- 连 - to join, to connect; continuous; even
- 夜 - night, dark; under cover of night
- 雨 - rain
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