九霄云外 — Chinese idiom
九霄云外
jiǔ xiāo yún wài
Traditional: 九霄雲外
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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