| 太阳从西边出来 |
tài yáng cóng xī biān chū lái |
lit. the sun rises in the west (idiom) / fig. hell freezes over / pigs can fly |
| 太 |
tài |
highest / greatest / too (much) / very / extremely |
| 太阳 |
tài yang |
sun / sunlight; sunshine / temple (on the side of the human head) (abbr. for 太阳穴) |
| 阳 |
yáng |
positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 阴 |
| 从 |
cóng |
variant of 从 |
| 从 |
Cóng |
surname Cong |
| 从 |
cóng |
from; through; via / (bound form) to follow / (bound form) to obey / (bound form) to engage in (an activity) / (used before a negative) ever / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) retainer; attendant / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) (Taiwan pr. [zong4]) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor |
| 西 |
Xī |
the West / abbr. for Spain 西班牙 / Spanish |
| 西 |
xī |
west |
| 西边 |
xī biān |
west / west side / western part / to the west of |
| 边 |
biān |
side / edge / margin / border / boundary / CL:个 / simultaneously |
| 边 |
bian |
suffix of a noun of locality |
| 出 |
chū |
to go out; to come out / to arise; to occur / to produce; to yield / to go beyond; to exceed / (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) / classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc |
| 出 |
chū |
variant of 出 (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels) |
| 出来 |
chū lái |
to come out / to appear / to arise |
| 出来 |
chu lai |
(after a verb, indicates coming out, completion of an action, or ability to discern or detect) |
| 来 |
lái |
to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回来) / ever since (as in 自古以来) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ...; the next ... (as in 来世) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得 to indicate possibility, as in 谈得来, or after 不 to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不来) |