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一帆风顺

一帆风顺 yīfānfēngshùn

一帆风顺 yīfānfēngshùn Meaning

Learn the Pinyin Pronunciation and 4 English Translations of the word 一帆风顺 yīfānfēngshùn .

Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yīfānfēngshùn | yi1 fan1 feng1 shun4
English translation
propitious wind throughout the journey (idiom)
plain sailing
to go smoothly
have a nice trip!

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Traditional form

一帆風順

Part of speech

Idiom / 成语 chéngyǔ Chéngyǔ
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Etymology of 一帆风顺 yīfānfēngshùn

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Type

ideographic

Explanation

A single horizontal stroke, representing the number one.

Positional decomposition

Number of Strokes

1

fān

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. jīn represents the meaning and fán represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Phonetic compound

fán

Semantic compound

jīn

Positional decomposition

巾凡

Number of Strokes

6

fēng

Explanation

Simplified form of fēng . Originally written the same as fèng (phoenix) because the two characters sounded the same. Later the bottom part of the character was abbreviated to distinguish the two characters.

Positional decomposition

几乂

Number of Strokes

4

shùn

Type

pictophonetic

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and Chuān represents the sound. Simplified form of shùn .

Phonetic compound

Chuān

Semantic compound

Positional decomposition

川页

Number of Strokes

9

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Example sentences using 一帆风顺 yīfānfēngshùn

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想不起 de 生活 shēnghuó 中有任何 rènhé 一帆风顺 yīfānfēngshùn de 事情 shìqing

I can't think of anything in my life that's going right.

孕期 yùn qī 并非 bìngfēi 一帆风顺 yīfānfēngshùn zhè yòu 出现 chūxiàn 问题 wèntí le

Pregnancy wasn't all plain sailing and once again there were problems.

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