Where does “雲泥の差” come from?

雲泥の差 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 雲泥, from Japanese 雲, from Middle Chinese 雲.

雲泥の差 (Japanese): a great difference when compared with the same...

Definitions

  1. a great difference when compared with the same...

Ancestry of “雲泥の差”, step by step

雲泥の差 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 雲泥

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese雲泥things that are very different
2Japanese雲a cloud; of how clouds are widely spread; of how...
3Middle Chinese雲—

via Japanese 差

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese差difference
2Middle Chineseさ—
Every word from Middle Chinese 雲 →Every word from Japanese 雲 →Every word from Japanese 雲泥 →