| 心血来潮 |
xīn xuè lái cháo |
to be prompted by a sudden impulse / carried away by a whim / to have a brainstorm |
| 心 |
xīn |
heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:颗,个 |
| 心血 |
xīn xuè |
heart's blood / expenditure (for some project) / meticulous care |
| 血 |
xiě |
see 血 |
| 血 |
xuè |
blood / colloquial pr. [xie3] / CL:滴,片 |
| 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) |
| 来潮 |
lái cháo |
(of water) to rise / rising tide / (of women) to get one's period |
| 潮 |
cháo |
tide / damp; moist; humid / fashionable; trendy / (coll.) inferior; substandard |