天寒地冻
Traditional form:
天寒地凍
Pinyin (reading):
tiānhándìdòng
Definitions:
- cold weather, frozen ground (idiom); bitterly cold
Characters:
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 寒 - chilly, cold; poor; to shiver, to tremble
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 冻 - cold; to freeze, to congeal; jelly
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