顶天立地 — Chinese idiom
顶天立地
dǐng tiān lì dì
Traditional: 頂天立地
Meaning
- lit. able to support both heaven and earth
- of indomitable spirit
Character by character
- 顶dǐngtop, summit, peak; to carry on the head
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
- 立lìto stand; to establish, to set up
- 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
Idioms sharing a character
- 冒名顶替 mào míng dǐng tì
- 摩顶放踵 mó dǐng fàng zhǒng
- 灭顶之灾 miè dǐng zhī zāi
- 醍醐灌顶 tí hú guàn dǐng
- 顶礼膜拜 dǐng lǐ mó bài
- 顶门壮户 dǐng mén zhuàng hù
- 一柱擎天 yī zhù qíng tiān
- 一步登天 yī bù dēng tiān
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.