thanh danh ngõa giải
A name collapsing like roof-tiles — reputation shattering all at once.
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thanh giả tự thanh
The clear clear themselves — the upright need no defense; time rinses them clean.
thanh niên hoi
A wisp of a youth — young but frail, with no strength in the body.
thanh phong minh nguyệt
Clear breeze and bright moon — nature's serenity, and a life content with it.
thanh uy thiên hạ
Renown ringing across the realm — a name all under heaven have heard.
thanh uy đại chấn
Prestige thundering out — a reputation detonating into every ear.
thanh vân đắc lộ
Finding the road through blue clouds — rising fast; a career taking wing.
thanh vấn vu thiên
A cry heard in heaven — sound, or grievance, carrying all the way up.
thanh xuất vu lam
Blue comes out of indigo — the student is dyed by the master, and may come out the deeper shade.
thao quang dưỡng hối
Shading one's light and nursing the dark — hiding talent and biding time.
thay lòng đổi dạ
to have a change of heart, especially toward unfaithfulness
thay trời hành đạo
to enforce the (moral) Way on behalf of Heaven, to take the law into one's own hands
theo đít ngựa
Trailing the horse's rear — following power at the tail end.
theo đóm ăn tàn
Trailing the embers to eat the ash — hangers-on living off the sparks of others' fires.
thi gan đọ sức
Matching nerve and measuring strength — a contest fought to the last fiber.
thi trung hữu họa
A painting inside the poem — verse so visual it hangs like a scroll.
thi tình họa ý
A poem's feeling, a painting's intent — beauty composed in two arts at once.
thi vị tố xang
A seat-warming idol — installed like a shrine figure, feeding on offerings, doing nothing.
thi ân bất cầu báo
Grant the favor, seek no repayment — kindness invoiced is kindness sold.
thi đỗ hoặc thi trượt
to pass or fail an exam
thiên biến vạn hoán
A thousand changes, ten thousand transformations — flux that outruns every forecast.
thiên bất dung gian đảng
Heaven harbors no gang of traitors — the crooked circle is always foreclosed from above.
thiên bất sinh vô lộc
Heaven births no one without a portion — existence ships with provisions.
thiên cao địa hậu
How high heaven is, how thick the earth — the scale of things the arrogant have never measured.
thiên chân vạn xác
A thousand truths, ten thousand certainties — verified beyond any quibble.
thiên cơ bất khả lộ
Heaven's machinery must not be shown — the decisive secret stays sealed.
thiên duyên tiền định
A match fixed by heaven beforehand — love decreed before the lovers ever met.
thiên hoang địa lão
Till heaven runs wild and earth grows old — a term measured against the universe's own aging.
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.