天理难容
tiān lǐ nán róng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 天理難容
So wicked that Heaven itself could not let it pass. A strong condemnation of cruel or shameless acts, such as harming children or abandoning one's own parents.
Đạo trời khó mà dung thứ: việc làm quá độc ác, đến trời cũng không tha. Lời lên án rất nặng dành cho những hành vi tàn nhẫn, bất nhân bất nghĩa.
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 ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thiên lý nan dung” (thien-ly-nan-dung). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “天理难容” mean?
So wicked that Heaven itself could not let it pass. A strong condemnation of cruel or shameless acts, such as harming children or abandoning one's own parents. Literally: hard for heaven's justice to allow
Is “天理难容” formal or informal?
天理难容 is generally neutral.