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Open the tool →思潮起伏 (sī cháo qǐ fú) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “a flood of ideas or thoughts coming and going in one's mind”.
思潮起伏 is pronounced sī cháo qǐ fú in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 思潮起伏 means “Thoughts rising and falling like tides”. It is used to mean “a flood of ideas or thoughts coming and going in one's mind”.
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