thiên hoang địa lão
Till heaven runs wild and earth grows old — a term measured against the universe's own aging.
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thiên hình vạn trạng
multiform; manifold; protean
thiên hạ vô song
Without equal under heaven — one of one.
thiên hồng vạn tử
A thousand crimsons, ten thousand purples — blossom season at full riot.
thiên kinh địa nghĩa
The warp of heaven, the rightness of earth — truths as fixed as the compass points.
thiên kiều bách mị
A thousand charms, a hundred graces — beauty with its full arsenal.
thiên kỳ vạn trạng
A thousand marvels, ten thousand shapes — variety past cataloguing.
thiên la địa võng
inescapable net
thiên lý chi hành, thủy ư túc hạ
The thousand-mile journey starts under your feet — begin, and the distance is already shrinking.
thiên lý nan dung
What heaven's law cannot pardon — wickedness past the last court of appeal.
thiên mưu bách kế
by hook or by crook; by every possible means
thiên ngoại hữu thiên
Beyond this sky, another sky — however high you stand, a higher stands past it.
thiên ngôn vạn ngữ
A thousand words, ten thousand sayings — everything there is to say, said.
thiên phương bách kế
by hook or by crook; by every possible means
thiên quân vạn mã
A thousand troops, ten thousand horses — force in its grandest census.
thiên sanh nhơn hà nhơn vô lộc, địa sanh thảo hà thảo vô căn
Heaven births no one without a portion, earth grows no grass without a root — provision is issued with existence.
thiên sanh nhứt thế nhơn, tực túc liểu nhứt thế sự
Heaven makes each generation's people equal to that generation's work — every age is issued its own sufficient hands.
thiên sơn vạn thủy
A thousand mountains, ten thousand rivers — the full toll of a long, hard road.
thiên tai địch họa
Heaven's disasters and enemies' havoc — calamity from sky and foe alike.
thiên thu vạn tuế
A thousand autumns, ten thousand years — permanence wished at imperial scale.
thiên thượng thiên hạ, bác ái công bình
Divine Covenant of the Cao Dai religion (rendered into English as 'God and Humanity [for] Love and Justice.')
thiên trường địa cửu
Long as heaven, lasting as earth — devotion on a geological warranty.
thiên tân vạn khổ
A thousand pains, ten thousand hardships — suffering itemized to the last entry.
thiên tư vạn tưởng
A thousand thoughts, ten thousand musings — the mind circling without landing.
thiên tải nhất thì
once in a blue moon; once in a thousand years
thiên tử vô hí ngôn
The Son of Heaven makes no idle remark — from the throne, every syllable is law or must not be spoken.
thiên vô nhị nhựt, quốc vô nhị vương
No two suns in the sky, no two kings in a realm — authority is singular or it is war.
thiên võng nan đào
Heaven's net is hard to flee — the sky's mesh is loose, and nothing slips it.
thiên ân vạn tạ
A thousand thanks, ten thousand gratitudes — appreciation at full ceremony.
thiên đạo báo ứng nhãn tiền
Heaven's justice repays before your eyes — the verdict arrives in this life, not forwarded to the next.
thiên đạo phước thiện họa dàm
Heaven's way blesses the good and afflicts the excessive — the sky keeps one ledger for everyone.
thiên địa tuy đại, nhơn do hữu sở hám
Heaven and earth are vast, yet someone still complains — no weather suits every field.
thiết diện vô tư
An iron face without favor — incorruptibly impartial, whatever it costs.
thiếu canh bất sự
Young and untried by affairs — the greenness of years not yet weathered.
thiếu trước hụt sau
full of hardship
thiền thính tự ngả dân thính
Heaven hears through the people's ears — the popular voice is the celestial audit.
thiện sanh phước chung
A good life earns a good end — the peaceful deathbed is built over decades.
thiện ác chi báo, như ảnh tùy hình
Good and evil repay like the shadow trailing the form — recompense walks exactly your gait, one step behind.
thiệp chúc mừng năm mới
New Year’s card
thiệt đơn thiệt kép
Losses single and double — hurt on every side of the deal.
thua giời một vạn, còn hơn thua bạn một ly
Lose ten thousand to heaven before one hair to a friend — defeat by fate is bearable; by a peer, never.
thuyền dời bến cũ không dời
The boat may move; the old wharf never does — affections change vessels, not their moorings.
thuyền mạnh về lái, gái mạnh về chồng
A boat is strong in its helm, a woman in her husband — the old proverb's rigging of marriage.
thuyền theo lái, gái theo chồng
boats follow their rower, women follow their husbands
thuyền về có nhớ bến chăng Bến thì một dạ khăng khăng đợi thuyền
Boat, do you remember your wharf? — the wharf, single-hearted, waits fast for its boat — constancy's most beloved metaphor.
thuyền xuôi gió ngược
Boat downstream, wind upstream — furthered by one force, fought by the other.
thuận buồm xuôi gió
the sail gets smoothly carried away by the wind
thuận thiên giả tồn, nghịch thiên giả vong
Follow heaven and endure; defy heaven and perish — the mandate's one-sentence contract.
thuận thiên ứng nhơn
Aligned with heaven, answering the people — the throne held by consent of both.
thuận thì tu văn đức, nghịch tắc thắng võ công
In peace, cultivate the civil; against defiance, prevail by arms — the ruler's two hands.
thuận vợ thuận chồng, tát Biển Đông cũng cạn
a married couple that lives together in harmony can achieve larger goals
thuận vợ thuận chồng, tát bể đông cũng cạn
When wife and husband pull together, the East Sea itself can be bailed dry — concord is the greatest engine.
thuốc đắng dã tật, lời thật mất lòng
Bitter medicine cures, honest words offend — the two therapies nobody swallows gladly.
thuốc đắng giã tật, sự thật mất lòng
eggcorn of thuốc đắng dã tật, sự thật mất lòng
thuốc đắng đã tật
Past the fence, over the hedge and the tail relaxes — out of danger, courage returns.
thuốc đắng đã tật, sự thật mất lòng
bitter medicines ease ailments, the truth offends
thuộc như cháo chảy
Fluent as porridge pouring — knowing it cold; reciting without a stumble.
THVN
short for Truyền hình Việt Nam (“Vietnam Television”)
thà ăn bắp hột chà vô Còn hơn giàu có mồ côi mẹ già
Better corn kernels chewed plain than wealth with your old mother in the grave — no fortune outbids a living parent.
thành môn thất hỏa, ươn cập trì ngư
Fire at the city gate scalds the fish in the moat — the bystander boiled by the neighbor's war.