判若云泥 (判若雲泥)
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Pinyin
Definition
判若云泥 (判若雲泥)
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- as different as heaven and earth (idiom)
- worlds apart
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
五鬼闹判
- 1 Five ghosts mock the judge, or Five ghosts resist judgment (title of folk opera, idiom); important personage mobbed by a crowd of ne'er-do-wells
冷若冰霜
- 1 as cold as ice and frost (idiom, usually of woman); icy manner
- 2 frigid
出淤泥而不染
- 1 lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom)
- 2 fig. to be principled and incorruptible
判若云泥
- 1 as different as heaven and earth (idiom)
- 2 worlds apart
危若朝露
- 1 precarious as morning dew (idiom); unlikely to last out the day