tiān​wǎng​huī​huī​shū'ér​bù​shī

justice has a long arm

tiān​wǎng​huī​huī​shū'ér​bù​shī justice has a long arm

  1. the net of heaven
    (literary) the justice of heaven; the punishment of nature for wrongdoing
  2. reduplication
    vast
    (bound form) vast; extensive; wide-ranging, as in 恢弘 huī​hóng or the idiom 天网恢恢 tiān​wǎng​huī​huī
  3. shū
    non-Chinese
  4. sparse
    (bound form) sparse; scattered; thin; having wide gaps
  5. ér conjunction
    but
    Used to connect ideas that contrast or conflict; yet; but; on the other hand
  6. to not lose
    To not lose; to not fail to; to not miss (an opportunity) or depart from (a principle)

tiān​wǎng​huī​huī​shū'ér​bù​shī justice has long arms

  1. justice has a long arm
    The way of heaven is vast and fair, and the guilty will eventually be punished; criminals cannot escape the law. This idiom is often followed by 疏而不漏 shū'ér​bù​lòu.
  2. shū
    non-Chinese
  3. sparse
    (bound form) sparse; scattered; thin; having wide gaps
  4. ér conjunction
    but
    Used to connect ideas that contrast or conflict; yet; but; on the other hand
  5. adverb
    not
    Negative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
  6. to miss
    to miss; to let slip; to fail to seize something like an opportunity or chance