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天壤之别

tiān rǎng zhī bié

4-character word Traditional 天壤之別

What 天壤之别 means

1. (lit.) the difference between heaven and earth (idiom)
2. (fig.) night and day difference; a world of difference; a far cry (from)

The characters in 天壤之别

• 天tiānday; sky; heaven
• 壤rǎng(bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 别biéto leave; to part (from); (literary) to differentiate; to distinguish…