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From the basics of characters to complex idioms, Chinese learning can be challenging. This free guide highlights the idiom 「地老天荒」. Details below.

Here, we present the idiom 「地老天荒」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Refers to a very long period of time.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dì lǎo tiān huāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dei6/dei2 lou5 tin1 fong1

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