粵

滄cong1海hoi2桑song1田tin4

simp沧海桑田
cong1 hoi2 song1 tin4cāng hǎi sāng tián

English

  1. lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom)
  2. fig. the transformations of the world
  3. weathered; hardened; seasoned; describes great change in one after having been through a lot; literally: blue sea mulberry fields (i.e. seas become land and vice versa)

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 大海變為陸地，陸地淪為大海。比喻經歷過好多嘢，改變好大

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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