lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom); fig. to suffer a crushing defeat
trad. 一敗塗地
Also written 一敗塗地【yī bài tú dì】
Characters in this word
4一
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one, 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
- Pinyin
- yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Frequency
- 158 of 2500
败
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to defeat, to damage, to lose (to an opponent), to fail, to wither
- Pinyin
- bài
- Traditional
- 敗
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 24234 of 2500
涂
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to apply (paint etc), to smear, to daub, to blot out, to scribble, to scrawl, (literary) mud, street
- Pinyin
- tú
- Traditional
- 塗
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 8424 of 2500
地
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-ly, structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct
- Pinyin
- de
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 271 of 2500