天崩地裂
Traditional form:
天崩地裂
Pinyin (reading):
tiānbēngdìliè
Definitions:
- heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster
- fig. violent revolution
- major social upheaval
Characters:
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 崩 - to rupture, to split apart; to collapse; death, demise
- 地 - earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
- 裂 - to split, to rend; crevice, crack
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