干裂 (乾裂)
gān liè
Pinyin
Definition
干裂 (乾裂)
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- (of dry soil, skin etc) to crack
- to chap
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 yin and yang
- 2 heaven and earth
- 3 the universe
- 1 to split up
- 2 to divide
- 3 to break up
- 4 fission
- 5 schism
- 1 heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster
- 2 fig. violent revolution
- 3 major social upheaval
- 1 to rip apart
- 2 to tear
- 3 laceration
- 4 rent
- 1 to split
- 2 to crack
- 3 to break open
- 4 to rend
Idioms (9)
四分五裂
- 1 all split up and in pieces (idiom); disunity (in an organization)
- 2 complete lack of unity
- 3 to disintegrate
- 4 falling apart
- 5 to be at sixes and sevens
天崩地裂
- 1 heaven falls and earth rends (idiom); rocked by a major disaster
- 2 fig. violent revolution
- 3 major social upheaval
心胆俱裂
- 1 to be scared out of one's wits (idiom)
扭转乾坤
- 1 lit. to upend heaven and earth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to change the course of events
- 3 to turn things around
旋乾转坤
- 1 lit. overturning heaven and earth (idiom); earth-shattering
- 2 a radical change