遮天蔽日 — Chinese idiom
遮天蔽日
zhē tiān bì rì
Meaning
- lit. hiding the sky and covering the earth ; fig. earth-shattering
- omnipresent
- of universal importance
Character by character
- 遮zhēto cover, to protect, to shield
- 天tiānsky, heaven; god, celestial
- 蔽bìto cover, to hide, to shelter
- 日rìsun; day; daytime
Idioms sharing a character
- 东掩西遮 dōng yǎn xī zhē
- 遮遮掩掩 zhē zhē yǎn yǎn
- 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
- 不共戴天 bù gòng dài tiān
- 不啻天渊 bù chì tiān yuān
- 不见天日 bù jiàn tiān rì
- 九天仙女 jiǔ tiān xiān nǚ
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