呼天抢地
Traditional form:
呼天搶地
Pinyin (reading):
hūtiānqiāngdì
Definitions:
- (idiom) to cry out to heaven and knock one's head against the ground (as an expression of anguish)
Characters:
- 呼 - to breathe, to exhale, to sigh; to call, to shout
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 抢 - urgent, rushed; to rob, to plunder
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
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