Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「謾天謾地」, explained below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「謾天謾地」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
It is like saying that the sky is in vain and the earth is ignorant. It refers to concealing all true circumstances and deceiving people without limit.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
màn tiān màn dì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
maan4 tin1 maan4 dei6/dei2
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.
