Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「遮天蓋日」.
Learn about the idiom 「遮天蓋日」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Block out the sky and the sun. Used to describe things that are huge in size, large in number, or grand in momentum.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhē tiān gài rì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
je1 tin1 goi3/koi3 yat6
Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.
