地动山摇 — Chinese idiom
地动山摇
dì dòng shān yáo
Traditional: 地動山搖
Meaning
- the earth quaked, the mountains shook ; a tremendous battle
Character by character
- 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
- 动dòngto move, to happen; movement, action
- 山shānmountain, hill, peak
- 摇yáoto rock, to shake; to swing, to wave
Idioms sharing a character
- 一败涂地 yī bài tú dì
- 上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì
- 不败之地 bù bài zhī dì
- 不毛之地 bù máo zhī dì
- 五体投地 wǔ tǐ tóu dì
- 人杰地灵 rén jié dì líng
- 人间地狱 rén jiān dì yù
- 出人头地 chū rén tóu dì
- 呱呱坠地 gū gū zhuì dì
- 呼天抢地 hū tiān qiāng dì
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