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渤澥桑田

bó xiè sāng tián

4-character word

What 渤澥桑田 means

1. lit. blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from {史记|Shǐ jì}, Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes
2. life's vicissitudes

The characters in 渤澥桑田

• 渤bóused in 渤海
• 澥xiè(of porridge etc) to become watery; (dialect) to thin (porridge etc) by adding water etc
• 桑sāng(bound form) mulberry tree
• 田tiánfield; farm

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