Chinese

		up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up	exhausted; poor	green jade; bluish green; blue green jade; bluish green; blue; jade	alight; to fall; to drop (behind) alight; to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind	under; second; next under; second; next; lower; below; underneath; down(wards); to decline; to go down; latter	underground spring
trad. (上窮碧落下黃泉)		上	窮	碧	落	下	黃泉
simp. (上穷碧落下黄泉)		上	穷	碧	落	下	黄泉

Idiom

上窮碧落下黃泉

1. search high and low
   • 2003: 李学江 (Li Xuejiang), 人民时评：也说萨达姆被捉 (People's critique: they also say that Saddam has been captured)

     那個在美軍攻佔巴格達之時悄然蒸發，讓十數萬大軍在長達8個月時間裡"上窮碧落下黃泉，兩處茫茫皆不見的"的薩達姆，卻一直像幽靈一般困擾著佔領當局.

     Saddam had disappeared into thin air shortly after the American forces took Baghdad. For eight months, he caused hundreds of thousands of soldiers to search high and low, but was no where to be found. Despite this, he continued to haunt the occupation authorities like a phantom.