| 大旱望云霓 |
dà hàn wàng yún ní |
lit. looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom) / fig. to yearn for relief from a desperate situation |
| 大 |
dà |
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother) |
| 大 |
dài |
see 大夫 |
| 旱 |
hàn |
drought |
| 望 |
wàng |
full moon / to hope / to expect / to visit / to gaze (into the distance) / to look towards / towards |
| 望 |
wàng |
15th day of month (lunar calendar) / old variant of 望 |
| 云 |
yún |
(classical) to say |
| 云 |
Yún |
surname Yun / abbr. for Yunnan Province 云南省 |
| 云 |
yún |
cloud / CL:朵 |
| 霓 |
ní |
Japanese cicada / old variant of 霓 |
| 霓 |
ní |
secondary rainbow |