老天爷
lǎo​tiān​yé

heavens

老天爷 (老天爺) lǎo​tiān​yé
heavens noun
divine providence or the power of fate

这一切都是老天爷的安排。

zhè yī​qiè dōu shì lǎo​tiān​yé de ān​pái.

It was all preordained by Heaven.

god noun
the personified supreme deity in Chinese folk religion

老天爷，求你降点雨吧！

lǎo​tiān​yé, qiú nǐ jiàng diǎn yǔ ba!

Oh God, please send us some rain!

Frequency
Movie subtitles
15.0 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
2.95 per million

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Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)