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 「哀天叫地」, with details below.
The Chinese idiom 「哀天叫地」 we’re introducing today is explained in detail below, along with its meaning and usage.
Sorrow: sadness. Cry out to heaven and earth in sorrow. Describes extreme sorrow.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
āi tiān jiào dì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
oi1 tin1 giu3 dei6/dei2
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