冤冤相报何时了 / 冤冤相報何時了

yuān​yuān​xiāng​bào​hé​shí​liǎo

revenge breeds revenge

A Buddhist saying asking whether there will ever be an end to it if revenge simply leads to more revenge.

冤冤 (reduplication) → 冤 · yuān · enmity 相 (literal) → 相 · xiāng · mutually 报 (literal) → 报/報 · bào · to retaliate 何 (literal) → 何 · hé · what 时 (literal) → 时/時 · shí · time 了 (literal) → 了 · liǎo · to finish

Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:58 PM