遠隔千里

thousands of miles away / far away

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

thousand

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

to separate / to partition / to stand or lie between / at a distance from / after or at an interval of

a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance

far / distant / remote / (intensifier in a comparison) by far / much (lower etc)

to distance oneself from (classical)