枪林弹雨

槍林彈雨
qiānglín-dànyǔ
idiom #23,902

Meanings

  1. 1 hail of bullets
  2. 2 fierce gunfire
  3. 3 a storm of bullets

Examples

HSK 6
Tā zài qiānglín-dànyǔ zhōng jiù chū le zhànyǒu.
He rescued his comrade amid fierce gunfire.
HSK 7-9
Zhànshì men zài qiānglín-dànyǔ zhōng chōngfēng-xiànzhèn.
The soldiers charged forward through a hail of bullets.

Tips

memory
Picture the battlefield: (guns) form a (forest), and (bullets) fall like (rain). A forest of guns, a rain of bullets - the literal image makes the intensity vivid.

Stroke Order

qiāng
lín
dàn