呱呱坠地 — Chinese idiom
呱呱坠地
gū gū zhuì dì
Traditional: 呱呱墜地
Meaning
- (of a baby) to enter the world with a loud cry; to be born
Character by character
- 呱gūto wail, to cry; to swear at
- 呱gūto wail, to cry; to swear at
- 坠zhuìto drop, to fall down, to sink; heavy; weight
- 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
Idioms sharing a character
- 天花乱坠 tiān huā luàn zhuì
- 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
- 呼天抢地 hū tiān qiāng dì
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