开天辟地 — Chinese idiom
开天辟地
kāi tiān pì dì
Traditional: 開天闢地
Meaning
- (lit.) to split heaven and earth apart (refers to the Pangu 盘古 (Pán gǔ) creation myth)
- (fig.) unprecedented; first of its kind
Character by character
- 开kāito open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
- 辟pìlaw, rule; to open up, to develop
- 地dìearth, ground, soil; land, region; structural part
Idioms sharing a character
- 信口开河 xìn kǒu kāi hé
- 别开生面 bié kāi shēng miàn
- 喜笑颜开 xǐ xiào yán kāi
- 大开大合 dà kāi dà hé
- 大开眼界 dà kāi yǎn jiè
- 左右开弓 zuǒ yòu kāi gōng
- 广开言路 guǎng kāi yán lù
- 情窦初开 qíng dòu chū kāi
- 放开手脚 fàng kāi shǒu jiǎo
- 旗开得胜 qí kāi dé shèng
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