# 山崩地裂
## Chinese

| | | mountain; hill | collapse; fall into ruins | earth; ground; fieldearth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly | crack; split |
| trad. (山崩地裂) | trad. (山崩地裂) | 山 | 崩 | 地 | 裂 |
| simp. $^#$(山崩地裂) | simp. $^#$(山崩地裂) | 山 | 崩 | 地 | 裂 |
| Literally: “The mountains collapse and the earth splits open.” ||||||

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): shānbēngdìliè
    (Zhuyin): ㄕㄢ ㄅㄥ ㄉㄧˋ ㄌㄧㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): saan$^1$ bang$^1$ dei$^6$ lit$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): san-peng-tē-lia̍t / soaⁿ-pang-tōe-li̍h / soaⁿ-pang-tē-li̍h
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: shānbēngdìliè
*** Zhuyin: ㄕㄢ ㄅㄥ ㄉㄧˋ ㄌㄧㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: shanbengdìliè
*** Wade–Giles: shan$^1$-pêng$^1$-ti$^4$-lieh$^4$
*** Yale: shān-bēng-dì-lyè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shanbengdihlieh
*** Palladius: шаньбэндиле (šanʹbɛndile)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʂän⁵⁵ pɤŋ⁵⁵ ti⁵¹⁻⁵³ li̯ɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: saan$^1$ bang$^1$ dei$^6$ lit$^6$
*** Yale: sāan bāng deih liht
*** Cantonese Pinyin: saan$^1$ bang$^1$ dei$^6$ lit$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: san$^1$ beng$^1$ déi$^6$ lid$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /saːn⁵⁵ pɐŋ⁵⁵ tei̯²² liːt̚²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: san-peng-tē-lia̍t
*** Tâi-lô: san-ping-tē-lia̍t
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sanpengdexliat
*** IPA (Xiamen): /san⁴⁴⁻²² piɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² te²²⁻²¹ liɛt̚⁴/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soaⁿ-pang-tōe-li̍h
*** Tâi-lô: suann-pang-tuē-li̍h
*** Phofsit Daibuun: svoa'pangdoexlih
*** IPA (Xiamen): /suã⁴⁴⁻²² paŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tue²²⁻²¹ liʔ⁴/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: soaⁿ-pang-tē-li̍h
*** Tâi-lô: suann-pang-tē-li̍h
*** Phofsit Daibuun: svoa'pangdexlih
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /suã⁴⁴⁻³³ paŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ te³³⁻²¹ liʔ⁴/

### Idiom

山崩地裂
* describes how a place looks after a great natural catastrophe; massively destructive
    From: 2006, anon., 中国地震信息网 (China Seismic Information)
    Zhè cì dìzhèn fāshēng zài dāngdì shíjiān língchén, rénmen hái zài shuìmèng zhōng bèi shānbēng dìliè bān de dìzhèn jīngxǐng, wúshù fángwū zài yīshùnjiān hōngrán dǎotān, xǔduō rén cùbùjífáng jiù sǐ yú mèng zhōng. [Pinyin]
    This time, the earthquake occurred before dawn local time. People were still sound asleep when they were jolted awake by a massively destructive earthquake. In an instant, countless houses had collapsed, and many people had died in their sleep with no time to react.
* describes when a large problem or major incident occurs; uproarious; riotous; outrageous
* describes something that has prestige and is imposing; awesome
    From: 2005, anon., 鬼太鼓座 (Ondekoza) -《疾走》(Roulade)
    “Tàigǔ” shì Rìběn chuántǒng de gǔyì biǎoyǎn xíngshì, yóuyú qí suǒ léi chū de shānbēng dìliè de jùxiǎng, jiāshàng dīpín rú jùfēng bān xí lái, qí yīnyā zhī gāo, lìdào zhī qiáng, bàofāyīn zhī měng, fēi yányǔ suǒ néng xíngróng. [Pinyin]
    The "Taiko" is a Japanese traditional style of drumming performance. As a result of the awesome noise that comes from the drumming, the low frequencies that strike like a hurricane, and the full and explosive ferocity of the sound, there are no words that can describe it.

#### Further reading

* 小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “山崩地裂”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎ (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC