平步青雲 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 平步青云 píngbùqīngyún ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄅㄨˋ ㄑㄧㄥ ㄩㄣˊ to rapidly go up in the world meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc) Character by character 平(píng)surname Ping 步(bù)surname Bu 青(qīng)short name for Qinghai 青海 qīnghǎi 雲(yún)surname Yun A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0