灭顶之灾
Traditional form:
滅頂之災
Pinyin (reading):
mièdǐngzhīzāi
Definitions:
- (idiom) catastrophic disaster; devastating calamity
Characters:
- 灭 - to extinguish; to wipe out
- 顶 - top, summit, peak; to carry on the head
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 灾 - disaster, catastrophe, calamity
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