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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「拔地參天」, with details below.

Let’s learn about the idiom 「拔地參天」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Rising from the ground: rising suddenly from the ground. Towering: towering into the sky. Describes something tall and majestic. Same as “Rising from the ground and leaning against the sky”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bá dì cān tiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat6 dei6/dei2 chaam1/sam1 tin1

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.