天網恢恢 tiān wǎng huī huī

you can't run from the long arm of the law

Word data

HSK Not in HSK
Frequency Unknown

Definitions

  1. 1. you can't run from the long arm of the law
  2. 2. fig. the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape
  3. 3. lit. heaven's net has wide meshes, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73)

Characters

Character Meaning
day; sky; heaven
net; network
to restore; to recover; great
to restore; to recover; great