開天闢地 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 开天辟地 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. kāitiānpìdì ㄎㄞ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄆㄧˋ ㄉㄧˋ to split heaven and earth apart (refers to the Pangu 盘古 pángǔ creation myth) (idiom) lit. unprecedented first of its kind fig. Character by character 開(kāi)open 天(tiān)day 闢(pì)open 地(dì)earth A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT