雁点青天字一行

雁點青天字一行

yàn diǎn qīngtiān zì yī háng

quotation

Meanings

1 wild geese dot the blue sky, a line of calligraphy
2 a flight of geese in V-formation resembling a written character
3 (lit.) geese dotting blue sky, characters in one line

Characters

character / writing

Examples

HSK 7-9

深秋的天空，雁点青天字一行，美如画卷。

Shēnqiū de tiānkōng, yàndiǎnqīngtiānzìyīháng, měi rú huàjuàn.

In the late-autumn sky, 'wild geese dot the blue, a line of calligraphy' - beautiful as a painted scroll.

HSK 7-9

他用相机拍下雁点青天字一行的瞬间。

Tā yòng xiàngjī pāi xià yàndiǎnqīngtiānzìyīháng de shùnjiān.

He photographed the moment when the geese formed a line of script across the blue sky.

Tips

history

From Bai Juyi's Tang poem 《江楼晚眺景物鲜奇吟玩成篇寄水部张员外》: 风翻白浪花千片，雁点青天字一行 (Wind flips the white waves into a thousand petals; geese dot the blue sky, a line of writing.) A celebrated parallel couplet - the waves are 'flower petals,' the geese 'a line of characters,' turning sky and water into natural calligraphy.

usage

Paired with 风翻白浪花千片 from the same poem - the two lines form one of the most quoted parallel couplets of Tang regulated verse. 点 here is a verb: 'to dot (the sky).'

Stroke Order

雁 yàn

点 diǎn

青 qīng

天 tiān

字 zì

一 yī

行 xíng