天壤之别 tiān rǎng zhī bié

a world of difference; fig. night and day difference

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency 26073rd word

Definitions

  1. 1. a world of difference
  2. 2. fig. night and day difference
  3. 3. a far cry from
  4. 4. lit. as different as sky and earth (idiom)
  5. 5. opposite extremes

Characters

Character Meaning
天 tiān HSK 1
day; sky; heaven
壤 rǎng HSK 6
soil; earth
之 zhī HSK 4
(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的de); it
别 bié HSK 2
don't ...!; other; another