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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「拔地倚天」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Pull: to protrude, to stick out. Lean: rely on, be close to. It rises abruptly from the ground and reaches close to the sky. It is a metaphor for being tall, prominent and majestic.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bá dì yǐ tiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat6 dei6/dei2 yi2 tin1
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