截断巫山云雨

截斷巫山雲雨

jiéduàn Wūshān yúnyǔ

quotation

Meanings

1 to cut off the clouds and rain of Mount Wu
2 to block the Wu Gorge clouds (hold back the Yangtze floods)
3 Mao Zedong's line imagining the Three Gorges Dam

Characters

to cut off (with 断)

to sever (with 截)

Wu (in mountain name)

Examples

更立西江石壁，截断巫山云雨，高峡出平湖。

Gèng lì Xījiāng shí bì, jiéduàn wūshānyúnyǔ, gāoxiáchūpínghú.

Let's raise a stone wall across the western river, cut off the Wu Gorge clouds, and make a calm lake emerge from the deep gorge.

三峡大坝真的截断巫山云雨了。

Sānxiá Dàbà zhēnde jiéduàn wūshānyúnyǔ le.

The Three Gorges Dam really did 'cut off the clouds and rain of Mount Wu.'

Tips

Stroke Order

截 jié

断 duàn

巫 wū

山 shān

云 yún

雨 yǔ