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

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「呼天搶地」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Land grab: touch down. Scream to the sky and bang your head on the ground. Describes extreme sadness.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hū tiān qiǎng dì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu1 tin1 cheung2 dei6/dei2

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