We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「戴天蹐地」.
Discover the idiom 「戴天蹐地」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Still wearing the sky and walking on the earth. 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 jí dì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai3 tin1 jik3 dei6/dei2
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