We’re offering free resources to help you learn Chinese. In this series, idioms and proverbs take center stage, known for their deep meanings and versatile usage. Today’s idiom is 「戴天履地」, explained below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「戴天履地」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Dai: holding up to the sky; Lu: step on, tread on. The sky is above your head and the earth is under your feet. Describes people living between heaven and earth. It is a metaphor for a kindness that is as deep and broad as the sky and the earth.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dài tiān lǚ dì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai3 tin1 lei5 dei6/dei2
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