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听风就是雨

tīng fēng jiù shì yǔ

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Definitions

  1. 1. lit. to believe in the rain on hearing the wind (idiom)
  2. 2. to believe rumors
  3. 3. to be credulous

Child Words of 听风就是雨

就是
jiù shì

exactly; precisely

听
yǐn

smile (archaic)

是
shì

to be (followed by substantives only)

雨
yù

(literary) to rain

雨
yǔ

rain

就
jiù

(after a suppositional clause) in that case; then

风
fēng

wind

听
tīng

to listen to; to hear