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壹败涂地
壹敗塗地
yībàitúdì
1. beaten and wiped over the floor (idiom); to fail utterly
2. a crushing defeat
3. failed and in a hopeless position

Character Breakdown

壹
yī
one (bankers' anti-fraud numeral)
12 丶
败
bài
failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
HSK 4 8 丶
涂
tú
to smear, to scribble, to daub; surname
HSK 5 10 丶
地
de
earth, ground, soil; land, region; structural particle used before a verb
HSK 3 6 丶

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