吉人天相
jí rén tiān xiàng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Heaven looks after good people. Said to comfort someone, or about someone, in danger or illness: a good person will surely come through safely.
Người hiền lành, tốt bụng thì được trời giúp đỡ. Thường nói để an ủi khi ai đó gặp nạn hay ốm nặng: người tốt ắt sẽ tai qua nạn khỏi.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 相 = tướng · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “cát nhơn thiên tướng” (cat-nhon-thien-tuong). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “吉人天相” mean?
Heaven looks after good people. Said to comfort someone, or about someone, in danger or illness: a good person will surely come through safely. Literally: a good person, heaven helps
Is “吉人天相” formal or informal?
吉人天相 is generally neutral.