verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (of rain or snow) to stop, leaving clear sky (literary)
  2. 2 (of anger) to subside (literary)

Examples

Yǔ guò tiān jì, chūxiàn le cǎihóng.
After the rain stopped, the sky cleared and a rainbow appeared.

Tips

history
rarely stands alone in modern Chinese; it lives on in set literary phrases like 雨过天霁 (the rain passes and the sky clears) and 霁色 (the clear hue after rain). It joins the rain radical with the phonetic .
memory
Rain on top, ('even, settled') below: the rain settles down and stops, leaving an even, clear sky.

Components

radical
rain
The rain radical sits on top, anchoring the weather meaning: this word is about precipitation coming to an end and the sky clearing.
phonetic
even; uniform
Supplies the sound (reading shifted from qí to jì). Its sense of 'even, settled' faintly echoes the calm, settled sky after the rain stops.

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