Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「天愁地慘」. Explanation below.
Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「天愁地慘」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Both heaven and earth feel sad and miserable. Describes extreme misery (often used to create an atmosphere).
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tiān chóu dì cǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tin1 sau4 dei6/dei2 chaam2
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