起雨

qǐyǔ
  1. (literary) to rain
  2. to rain

Wiktionary

Examples

突然下起雨來了。

All of a sudden, it began raining.

Source: Tatoeba

我們才一到家就下起雨來了。

It started raining as soon as we got home.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

1 起 qǐ
  1. to rise
  2. to raise
  3. to get up
  4. to set out
  5. to start
  6. to appear
  7. to launch
  8. to initiate (action)
  9. to draft
  10. to establish
  11. to get (from a depot or counter)
  12. verb suffix, to start
  13. starting from (a time, place, price etc)
  14. classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  15. classifier for groups: batch, group
=2 雨 yǔ rain

classifiers: 陣, 場
=2 雨 yù
  1. (literary) to rain
  2. (of rain, snow etc) to fall
  3. to precipitate
  4. to wet