Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「泰山壓頂」 and how it’s used.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「泰山壓頂」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
A metaphor for encountering great pressure and blow.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tài shān yā dǐng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
taai3 saan1 aat3 ding2/deng2
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
