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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「拔地搖山」.

Today’s idiom is 「拔地搖山」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

It turns over the earth and shakes the mountains. Used to describe a great momentum.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bá dì yáo shān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat6 dei6/dei2 yiu4 saan1

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