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.
