天时地利人和
tiān shí dì lì rén hé
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Traditional: 天時地利人和
The three conditions for success: the right moment, a favourable place and people who pull together. Said when everything is in place for a plan, a business or a team, or when one of the three is missing.
Ba điều kiện để thành công: thời cơ thuận lợi, địa thế thuận lợi và lòng người hoà hợp. Dùng khi mọi yếu tố đều thuận cho một kế hoạch, việc làm ăn hay một tập thể, hoặc khi còn thiếu một yếu tố nào đó.
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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 时/時 = thời · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thiên thời, địa lợi, nhân hoà” (thien-thoi-dia-loi-nhan-hoa). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
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Common questions
What does “天时地利人和” mean?
The three conditions for success: the right moment, a favourable place and people who pull together. Said when everything is in place for a plan, a business or a team, or when one of the three is missing. Literally: heaven's timing, earth's advantage, human harmony
Is “天时地利人和” formal or informal?
天时地利人和 is generally neutral.