









密云不雨 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “a situation where something significant is brewing or imminent, but has not yet happened or materialized; tension is building but has not yet erupted”. Literally, “dense clouds without rain”.

Chinese and English fill-in vocabulary worksheets
Open the tool →
Printable tracing sheets with a QR learning companion
Open the tool →
Turn a Chinese character or sentence into a GIF or MP4
Open the tool →
Choose character parts and animate their colors, together or in stroke order
Open the tool →密云不雨 (mì yún bù yǔ) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “a situation where something significant is brewing or imminent, but has not yet happened or materialized; tension is building but has not yet erupted”.
密云不雨 is pronounced mì yún bù yǔ in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 密云不雨 means “dense clouds without rain”. It is used to mean “a situation where something significant is brewing or imminent, but has not yet happened or materialized; tension is building but has not yet erupted”.
密云:满天乌云。满天乌云不下雨。比喻事物正在酝酿,一时还没有发作。