云泥之别

Traditional form:

雲泥之別

Pinyin (reading):

yúnnízhībié

Definitions:

• (fig.) a world of difference

Characters:

• 云 - cloud; to say, to speak
• 泥 - mud, earth, clay; plaster, paste
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 别 - to separate, to distinguish, to classify; to leave; other; do not, must not

Traditional characters:

• 雲 - cloud; to say, to speak
• 泥 - mud, earth, clay; plaster, paste
• 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
• 別 - to separate, to distinguish, to classify; to leave; other; do not, must not