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天寒地冻

tiān hán dì dòng

4-character word Traditional 天寒地凍

What 天寒地冻 means

1. idiombitterly cold; frigid

The characters in 天寒地冻

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 寒háncold; poor; to tremble
• 地dìearth; ground; field
• 冻dòngto freeze; to feel very cold; aspic or jelly

Example sentences

• 即使明天天寒地冻，路远马亡，我也要有对简单生活和梦想的追求。
  Jíshǐ míngtiān tiānhándìdòng, lù yuǎn mǎ wáng, wǒ yě yàoyǒu duì jiǎndān shēnghuó hé mèngxiǎng de zhuīqiú.
  It was for a dead person rather than a living one that we were searching.