山頹木壞 shān tuí mù huài

a great sage has died (idiom)

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. a great sage has died (idiom)
  2. 2. lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined

Characters

Character Meaning
山 shān HSK 3
mountain; hill; anything that resembles a mountain
頹 tuí
variant of 頹tuí; dejected; dispirited
木 mù HSK 5
tree; wood; wooden
壞 huài
bad; broken; to break down