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风雨无阻 (fēng yǔ-wú zǔ) — regardless of weather; rain or shine; no matter what obstacles

Definition

A set phrase meaning 'rain or shine' — used adverbially to stress that an event or action happens no matter the weather. Different from 风吹雨打, which focuses on suffering hardship caused by bad weather.

phrase
regardless of weatherrain or shineno matter what obstacles

Examples

  • 风雨无阻。
    Tā měi tiān zǎo shàng liù diǎn fēng yǔ-wú zǔ dì chū qù pǎo bù.
    He goes out for a run every morning at six, rain or shine.
  • 风雨无阻。
    Zhè pī huò wù fēng yǔ-wú zǔ bì xū sòng dào kè hù shǒu zhōng.
    This batch of goods must be delivered to the customer, regardless of weather.
  • 风雨无阻，。
    Wǒ men de jù huì fēng yǔ-wú zǔ, zhào cháng jìn xíng.
    Our party will go ahead as planned, rain or shine.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
主谓zhǔwèiSubject + predicate

A small sentence frozen into a word: something, and what it does or is.

风雨wind and rain
风fēngwind雨yǔrain
联合Coordinate
无阻not blocked
无wúnot have阻zǔobstruction
动宾Verb + object

风雨 is wind and rain, 无阻 means not blocked, so plans go ahead rain or shine.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 风 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape 雨 is an old picture of a cloud with rain drops falling from it; the top line was added later.

Open 雨 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 無; 无 is its simplified writing.

For the simplified 无, the story is about 無. 無 drew a person dancing with ox tails held in both hands to pray for rain, then was borrowed for 'have no', so the picture does not explain that meaning.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
阝Written in full as阜fù
Sound part声符shēngfú
且
且qiě阻zǔ
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

阻 is built from 阝 (written in full as 阜) on the left and 且 on the right, which gives the sound.

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HSK 3.0 Level 7-9

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