Learn more about 一落千丈
| Pinyin | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|
| lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom) / fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline / to take a dive |
| Simplified Chinese | Pinyin | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|
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一
|
one / 1 / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire / whole / all / throughout / "one" radical in chinese characters (kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit | |
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落
|
to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement | |
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千
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thousand | |
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千
|
a swing | |
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丈
|
measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m) / to measure / husband / polite appellation for an older male |
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