天昏地暗

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	muddle-headed; twilight; to faint muddle-headed; twilight; to faint; to lose consciousness	earth; ground; field earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly	dark; gloomy; hidden dark; gloomy; hidden; secret
trad. (天昏地暗)		天	昏	地	暗
simp. #(天昏地暗)		天	昏	地	暗
Literally: “murky heavens over a dark earth”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiānhūndì'àn

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄨㄣ ㄉㄧˋ ㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ fan¹ dei⁶ am³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiānhūndì'àn
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄨㄣ ㄉㄧˋ ㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tianhundì-àn
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-hun¹-ti⁴-an⁴
    • Yale: tyān-hwūn-dì-àn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianhuendihann
    • Palladius: тяньхуньдиань (tjanʹxunʹdianʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xu̯ən⁵⁵ ti⁵¹⁻⁵³ ˀän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ fan¹ dei⁶ am³
    • Yale: tīn fān deih am
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ fan¹ dei⁶ am³
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ fen¹ déi⁶ em³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ fɐn⁵⁵ tei̯²² ɐm³³/

Idiom

天昏地暗

1. dark all round; gloom
2. state of chaos and despair
3. to an extreme degree; like hell

Synonyms

• 天昏地黑