九霄云外 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• beyond the topmost clouds
• unimaginably far away

Character by character

• 九jiǔnine
• 霄xiāoclouds, mist; sky
• 云yúncloud; to say, to speak
• 外wàiout, outside, external; foreign; in addition

Idioms sharing a character

• 一言九鼎 yī yán jiǔ dǐng
• 三旬九食 sān xún jiǔ shí
• 九天仙女 jiǔ tiān xiān nǚ
• 九天揽月 jiǔ tiān lǎn yuè
• 九死一生 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
• 九牛一毛 jiǔ niú yī máo
• 十拿九稳 shí ná jiǔ wěn
• 十赌九输 shí dǔ jiǔ shū
• 龙生九子 lóng shēng jiǔ zǐ
• 气冲霄汉 qì chōng xiāo hàn

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