千里之外

thousand miles distant

thousand

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

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

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

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]) / him / her / it

outside / excluding

outside / in addition / foreign / external

a general planning in the seclusion of his tent is able to determine the outcome of the distant battle (idiom)