天崩地裂 tiān bēng dì liè

huge disaster; violent social change

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster
  2. 2. major social upheaval
  3. 3. fig. violent revolution

Characters

Character Meaning
天 tiān HSK 1
day; sky; heaven
崩 bēng HSK 6
to collapse; to fall into ruins; demise
地 dì HSK 3
ground; land; adverb marker -ly
裂 liè HSK 6
to split; to crack; to break open