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一落千丈

yī luò qiān zhàng

4-character word

What 一落千丈 means

1. lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
2. fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
3. to take a dive

The characters in 一落千丈

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 落luòto fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out
• 千qiānthousand
• 丈zhàngmeasure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m); to measure; husband

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