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天網恢恢 (tin1 mong5 fui1 fui1) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

天網恢恢 (tin1 mong5 fui1 fui1, tiān wǎng huī huī) — lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73); fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape; you can't run from the long arm of the law

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beyond HSK

Related words

• 天下為公 (tin1 haa6 wai4 gung1) — the whole world as one community
• 天下烏鴉一般黑 (tin1 haa6 wu1 aa1 jat1 bun1 hak1) — bad people and bad things are more or less the same everywhere
• 天下無敵 (tin1 haa6 mou4 dik6) — Invincible
• 天下無雙 (tin1 haa6 mou4 soeng1) — only one in the world
• 天下無難事 (tin1 haa6 mou4 naan4 si6) — nothing is impossible; difficult in this world
• 天之驕子 (tin1 zi1 giu1 zi2) — noun; god's favored one; elite, privileged person

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