拍案而起 Save Sign in to save words pāiànérqǐ ㄆㄞ ㄢˋ ㄦˊ ㄑㄧˇ to slam the table and rise to one's feet in indignation idiom Character by character 拍(pāi)pat 案(àn)case 而(ér)and 起(qǐ)rise A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0