咫尺天涯

zhǐ chǐ tiān yá

Definitions

1. so close, yet worlds apart (idiom)

Child Words of 咫尺天涯

• 天 tiān: day
• 尺 chě: one of the characters used to represent a musical note in gongche notation, 工尺譜|工尺谱[gōng chě pǔ]
• 尺 chǐ: a Chinese foot
• 咫 zhǐ: 8 in. length unit of Zhou dynasty
• 咫尺 zhǐ chǐ: very close
• 天涯 tiān yá: the other end of the world
• 涯 yá: border