青天 qīng tiān clear sky / blue sky / upright and honorable (official) syn 碧海青天 bì hǎi qīng tiān green sea, blue sky (idiom) / sea and sky merge in one shade / loneliness of faithful widow 天色 tiān sè color of the sky / time of day, as indicated by the color of the sky / weather 划过 划過 huá guò (of a meteor etc) to streak across (the sky) / (of a searchlight, lightning etc) to play across (the sky) 戴盆望天 dài pén wàng tiān lit. viewing the sky with a basin on one's head / it is hard to get a clear view of the sky while carrying a platter on one's head / fig. it is hard to get on in one's career while encumbered by family obligations / one can't perform a major task while bothered by other duties syn 玄武 xuán wǔ Black Tortoise (the seven mansions of the north sky) / (in Daoism) God of the north sky 天上下刀子 tiān shàng xià dāo zi lit. knives rain down from the sky (idiom) / fig. (even if) the sky crumbles 蓝天 藍天 lán tiān blue sky syn 蔚蓝 蔚藍 wèi lán azure / sky-blue syn 天蓝 天藍 tiān lán sky blue syn 晴天霹雳 晴天霹靂 qíng tiān pī lì lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom) / fig. a bolt from the blue syn 苍龙 蒼龍 cāng lóng Blue Dragon, other name of the Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙 (the seven mansions of the east sky) syn 青天霹雳 青天霹靂 qīng tiān pī lì thunder from a clear sky (idiom) / a bolt from the blue 瓦蓝 瓦藍 wǎ lán (usu. of the sky) azure / bright blue syn 青天霹雳 青天霹靂 qīng tiān - pī lì lit. thunderclap from a clear sky (idiom) / fig. a bolt from the blue 蓝领 藍領 lán lǐng blue-collar / blue-collar worker 青出于蓝 青出於藍 qīng chū yú lán lit. green is born of blue, but beats blue (idiom) / fig. the student becomes superior to the master / same as couplet 青出於藍,而勝於藍|青出于蓝,而胜于蓝 syn 缥 縹 piǎo (literary) light blue / (literary) light blue silk fabric 回回青 huí huí qīng Mohammedan blue (a cobalt blue pigment imported from Persia, used as an underglaze on Chinese porcelain during the Ming dynasty) 帝国蓝十字和蓝盾首选提供者组织 Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Preferred Provider Organization 蓝拟深海鳕 lán nǐ shēn hǎi xuě blue antimore / blue hake 友军误会射击 友軍誤會射擊 friendly fire / blue-on-blue engagement 反对人口贩运蓝心运动 反對人口販運藍心運動 Blue Heart Campaign against Human Trafficking / Blue Heart Campaign 蓝喉仙鹟 藍喉仙鶲 lán hóu xiān wēng (bird species of China) blue-throated blue flycatcher (Cyornis rubeculoides) 天空 tiān kōng sky syn 空中 kōng zhōng in the sky / in the air syn 星星 xīng xing (coll.) a star / the stars in the sky syn 星空 xīng kōng starry sky / the star-studded heavens 天上 tiān shàng the sky / the heavens syn 上天 shàng tiān Heaven / Providence / God / the sky above / to fly skywards / (euphemism) to die / to pass away / the previous day (or days) syn 漫天 màn tiān lit. to fill the whole sky / everywhere / as far as the eye can see syn 夜空 yè kōng night sky 天价 天價 tiān jià extremely expensive / sky-high price 天大 tiān dà gargantuan / as big as the sky / enormous 晴天 qíng tiān clear sky / sunny day syn 满天 滿天 mǎn tiān whole sky syn 凌空 líng kōng be high up in the sky syn 青云 青雲 qīng yún clear sky / fig. high official position / noble syn 仰天 yǎng tiān to face upwards / to look up to the sky syn 白虎 bái hǔ White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia 铺天盖地 鋪天蓋地 pū tiān gài dì lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth (idiom) / fig. earth-shattering / omnipresent / of universal importance syn 翱翔 áo xiáng to soar / to wheel about in the sky syn 海阔天空 海闊天空 hǎi kuò tiān kōng wide sea and sky (idiom) / boundless open vistas / the whole wide world / chatting about everything under the sun syn 长空 長空 cháng kōng (literary) the vast sky / (finance) eventual downturn / poor prospects in the long term syn 升空 昇空 shēng kōng to rise to the sky / to lift off / to levitate / liftoff 繁星 fán xīng many stars / a vast sky full of stars syn 阴天 陰天 yīn tiān cloudy day / overcast sky syn 横空 橫空 héng kōng filling the atmosphere / covering the sky 从天而降 從天而降 cóng tiān ér jiàng (idiom) to fall from the sky / (idiom) (fig.) to appear unexpectedly / to drop into one's lap syn 空降 kōng jiàng to drop from the sky / (fig.) to appear out of nowhere / (attributive) airborne 参天 參天 cān tiān (of a tree etc) to reach up to the sky syn 连天 連天 lián tiān reaching the sky / for days on end / incessantly syn 摩天 mó tiān skyscraping / towering into the sky syn 星夜 xīng yè starlit night / by night / under the night sky / through the night syn 当空 當空 dāng kōng overhead / up in the sky 翻天覆地 fān tiān fù dì sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom) / fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head syn 天翻地覆 tiān fān dì fù sky and the earth turning upside down (idiom) / fig. complete confusion / everything turned on its head syn 半边天 半邊天 bàn biān tiān half the sky / women of the new society / womenfolk syn 天旋地转 天旋地轉 tiān xuán dì zhuàn the sky spins, the earth goes round (idiom) / giddy with one's head spinning / fig. huge changes in the world syn 昊天 hào tiān clear sky 雨过天晴 雨過天晴 yǔ guò tiān qíng sky clears after rain / new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom) / every cloud has a silver lining (idiom) / see also 雨過天青|雨过天青[yu3 guo4 tian1 qing1] syn 陨落 隕落 yǔn luò to fall down / to decay / to fall from the sky / to die 杞人忧天 杞人憂天 qǐ rén yōu tiān man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom) / groundless fears syn 不共戴天 bù gòng dài tiān (of enemies) cannot live under the same sky / absolutely irreconcilable syn 天 tiān day / sky / heaven syn 星罗棋布 星羅棋布 xīng luó qí bù scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom) / spread all over the place syn 排空 pái kōng to drain out / to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky 四象 sì xiàng four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿[er4 shi2 ba1 xiu4] of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍|青龙[Qing1 long2], White Tiger 白虎[Bai2 hu3], Vermilion Bird 朱雀[Zhu1 que4], Black Tortoise 玄武[Xuan2 wu3] 昏天黑地 hūn tiān hēi dì lit. dark sky and black earth (idiom) / fig. pitch dark / to black out / disorderly / troubled times syn 天葬 tiān zàng sky burial (Tibetan funeral practice) 穹苍 穹蒼 qióng cāng the sky / the firmament / the vault of heaven syn 鱼肚白 魚肚白 yú dù bái fish-belly white (used to describe the dingy light of the dawn sky) 一手遮天 yī shǒu zhē tiān lit. to hide the sky with one hand / to hide the truth from the masses syn 弥天 彌天 mí tiān filling the entire sky / covering everything (of fog, crime, disaster etc) 霜天 shuāng tiān freezing weather / frosty sky 空 kōng empty / air / sky / in vain syn 霄汉 霄漢 xiāo hàn the sky / the heavens / (fig.) imperial court syn 坐井观天 坐井觀天 zuò jǐng guān tiān lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom) / ignorant and narrow-minded syn 穹窿 qióng lóng a dome / a vault / the sky 乾 gān surname Qian / strong / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦 representing sky / male principle syn 霞 xiá rose-tinted sky or clouds at sunrise or sunset syn 陨 隕 yǔn (bound form) to fall from the sky / (literary) to perish (variant of 殞|殒[yun3]) 穹 qióng vault / dome / the sky syn 昊 hào vast and limitless / the vast sky syn 霭 靄 ǎi mist / haze / cloudy sky syn 霁 霽 jì sky clearing up syn 四脚朝天 四腳朝天 sì jiǎo cháo tiān four legs facing the sky (idiom) / flat on one's back 扳龙附凤 扳龍附鳳 bān lóng fù fèng hitching a ride to the sky on the dragon and phoenix (idiom) / fig. currying favor with the rich and powerful in the hope of advancement 杞人之忧 杞人之憂 qǐ rén zhī yōu lit. the fear held by a man of 杞[Qi3] that the sky would fall (idiom) / fig. groundless fears 杞国忧天 杞國憂天 qǐ guó yōu tiān man of Qǐ fears the sky falling (idiom) / groundless fears 水天一色 shuǐ tiān yī sè water and sky merge in one color (idiom) 漫天遍地 màn tiān biàn dì lit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land (idiom) / fig. everywhere / as far as the eye can see 漫天遍野 màn tiān biàn yě lit. to fill the whole sky and cover the land / everywhere / as far as the eye can see 雨过天青 雨過天青 yǔ guò tiān qīng sky clears after rain / new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom) / every cloud has a silver lining (idiom) / see also 雨過天晴|雨过天晴[yu3 guo4 tian1 qing2] 青云直上 青雲直上 qīng yún zhí shàng rising straight up in a clear sky (idiom) / rapid promotion to a high post / meteoric career syn 风雨如晦 風雨如晦 fēng yǔ rú huì lit. wind and rain darken the sky (idiom) / fig. the situation looks grim 黑天半夜 hēi tiān bàn yè lit. the black sky of midnight / very late at night (idiom) 南箕北斗 nán jī běi dǒu lit. the Winnowing Basket in the southern sky, and the Big Dipper in the north (idiom) / fig. sth which, despite its name, is of no practical use syn 鹰击长空 鷹擊長空 yīng jī cháng kōng the eagle soars in the sky (citation from Mao Zedong) 