拔地而起 Save Sign in to save words bádìérqǐ ㄅㄚˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄦˊ ㄑㄧˇ (of a building etc) to rise out of the ground idiom Character by character 拔(bá)pull up 地(dì)earth 而(ér)and 起(qǐ)rise A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0