Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「翻天作地」 and how it’s used.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「翻天作地」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It means earth-shaking. Describes a very fierce quarrel.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fān tiān zuò dì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
faan1 tin1 jok3 dei6/dei2
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.
