天地玄黃 tiān dì xuán huáng

DEFINITIONS

  1. first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文[Qian1 zi4 wen2]

CHARACTERS

天 tiān sky, heaven; god, celestial
地 dì earth; soil, ground; region
玄 xuán deep, profound, abstruse; KangXi radical 95
黃 huáng yellow; surname