| 思潮起伏 |
sī cháo qǐ fú |
thoughts surging in one's mind (idiom) / different thoughts coming to mind |
| 思 |
sī |
to think / to consider |
| 思潮 |
sī cháo |
tide of thought / way of thinking characteristic of a historical period / Zeitgeist |
| 潮 |
cháo |
tide / damp; moist; humid / fashionable; trendy / (coll.) inferior; substandard |
| 起 |
qǐ |
to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group |
| 起伏 |
qǐ fú |
to move up and down / to undulate / ups and downs |
| 伏 |
Fú |
surname Fu |
| 伏 |
fú |
to lean over / to fall (go down) / to hide (in ambush) / to conceal oneself / to lie low / hottest days of summer / to submit / to concede defeat / to overcome / to subdue / volt |