天壤之别
Traditional form:
天壤之別
Pinyin (reading):
tiānrǎngzhībié
Definitions:
- lit. as different as sky and earth (idiom)
- fig. night and day difference
- opposite extremes
- a world of difference
- a far cry from
Characters:
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 壤 - soil, loam, earth; rich
- 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
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