zhǐ chǐ tiān yá

咫尺天涯 (zhǐ chǐ tiān yá) is a Chinese word meaning “so close, yet worlds apart (idiom)”.

Meanings

  1. 1so close, yet worlds apart (idiom)

Characters in 咫尺天涯

咫zhǐ · 8 in. length unit of Zhou dynasty尺chě · one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gong1 che3 pu3]天tiān · day涯yá · border

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