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Open the tool →地坼天崩 (dì chè tiān bēng) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “describes a cataclysmic event or a monumental upheaval”.
地坼天崩 is pronounced dì chè tiān bēng in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 地坼天崩 means “Earth cracks and heaven collapses”. It is used to mean “describes a cataclysmic event or a monumental upheaval”.
坼:开裂;崩:倒塌。地裂开,天崩塌。原指地震,后多比喻重大变故。