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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: 「通天徹地」.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「通天徹地」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

①Describes someone who has extremely high abilities. ② From heaven to earth, everywhere.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tōng tiān chè dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tung1 tin1 chit3 dei6/dei2

Chinese idioms are incredibly numerous, each carrying a special meaning and usage. This variety is a great reason to study them, and we hope these tools make that easier for you.