Idioms like 「地坼天崩」 are key to mastering Chinese. Start from characters, climb to idioms, and explore them with this free resource.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「地坼天崩」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Crack: to crack; collapse: to collapse. The earth cracked and the sky collapsed. Originally it referred to an earthquake, but later it was often used to describe major changes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dì chè tiān bēng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dei6/dei2 chaak3 tin1 bang1
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