屋漏更遭连夜雨
Traditional form:
屋漏更遭連夜雨
Pinyin (reading):
wūlòugèngzāoliányèyǔ
Definitions:
- when it rains, it pours (idiom)
Characters:
- 屋 - building, house, shelter; room
- 漏 - to leak, to drip; hour glass; funnel
- 更 - more, further; to shift, to alternate; to modify
- 遭 - to meet, to encounter, to come across
- 连 - to join, to connect; continuous; even
- 夜 - night, dark; under cover of night
- 雨 - rain
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