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一落千丈

yī luò qiān zhàng
Rare

Definitions

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

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Child Words of 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)