一落千丈

yī luò qiān zhàng

Definitionen

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

Bestandteilwörter von 一落千丈

• 一 yī: one
• 千 qiān: thousand
• 落 là: to leave out
• 落 lào: colloquial reading for 落[luò] in certain compounds
• 落 luò: to fall or drop
• 丈 zhàng: measure of length, ten Chinese feet (3.3 m)