天高皇帝远 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 天高皇帝遠 tiāngāohuángdìyuǎn ㄊㄧㄢ ㄍㄠ ㄏㄨㄤˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄩㄢˇ lit. the sky is high and the emperor is far away (idiom) fig. remote places are beyond the reach of the central government Character by character 天(tiān)day 高(gāo)surname Gao 皇(huáng)surname Huang 帝(dì)emperor 远(yuǎn)far A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0