| 海内存知己，天涯若比邻 |
hǎi nèi cún zhī jǐ , tiān yá ruò bǐ lín |
close friend in a distant land, far-flung realms as next door / close in spirit although far away |
| 海 |
Hǎi |
surname Hai |
| 海 |
hǎi |
ocean / sea / CL:个,片 / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous |
| 海内 |
hǎi nèi |
the whole world / throughout the land / everything under the sun |
| 内 |
nèi |
inside / inner / internal / within / interior |
| 内存 |
nèi cún |
internal storage / computer memory / random access memory (RAM) |
| 存 |
cún |
to exist / to deposit / to store / to keep / to survive |
| 知 |
zhī |
to know / to be aware |
| 知己 |
zhī jǐ |
to know oneself / to be intimate or close / intimate friend |
| 己 |
jǐ |
self / oneself / sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / sixth in order / letter "F" or Roman "VI" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / hexa |
| 天 |
tiān |
day / sky / heaven |
| 天涯 |
Tiān yá |
see 天涯区 |
| 天涯 |
tiān yá |
the other end of the world / a faraway place |
| 天涯若比邻 |
tiān yá ruò bǐ lín |
far-flung realms as next door (idiom) / close in spirit although far away |
| 涯 |
yá |
border / horizon / shore |
| 若 |
rě |
used in 般若 / used in 兰若 |
| 若 |
ruò |
to seem / like / as / if |
| 比 |
Bǐ |
Belgium / Belgian / abbr. for 比利时 |
| 比 |
bī |
euphemistic variant of 屄 |
| 比 |
bǐ |
to compare / (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / ratio / to gesture / (Taiwan pr. [bi4] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese) |
| 比邻 |
bǐ lín |
(literary) next-door neighbor / near; next to / Taiwan pr. [bi4lin2] |
| 邻 |
lín |
neighbor / adjacent / close to |
| 邻 |
lín |
variant of 邻 |