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大厦将倾

dà shà jiāng qīngdictionary entry
DEFINITION CC-CEDICT
great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom) / hopeless situation
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Reference definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors and MDBG, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source release 2026-10-27T01:55:52Z. Imported 2026-10-27. Definition wording and meaning order are retained. Recognized pronunciation references are displayed with tone marks; the original source record is available below.

Source record: cd-aec56f3266b4d234. Source SHA-256: bbc4b27f26bee1a262f4d7939667a040c7857c7fc0200a2fa7a86d3352a09eae.

Original source entry:

大廈將傾 大厦将倾 [da4 sha4 jiang1 qing1] /great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom); hopeless situation/

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Other forms in these source records: 大廈將傾

  • 大
    dà

    big / large / great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[dà jiě]) / greatly / freely / fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

    dài

    see 大夫[dài fu]

  • 厦
    shà

    (bound form) tall building / mansion / (bound form) rear annex / lean-to / Taiwan pr. [xià]

    Xià

    abbr. for Xiamen or Amoy 廈門|厦门[Xià mén], Fujian

  • 将
    jiāng

    will / shall / to use / to take / to checkmate / just a short while ago / (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[bǎ])

    jiàng

    (bound form) a general / (literary) to command / to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)

    qiāng

    to desire / to invite / to request

  • 倾
    qīng

    to overturn / to collapse / to lean / to tend / to incline / to pour out

Reference definitions from CC-CEDICT.