无法无天
wú fǎ wú tiān
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Traditional: 無法無天
Respecting neither the law nor any higher authority; wild and unrestrained. Used for criminals and bullies, and also, half seriously, for very badly behaved children.
Không coi pháp luật, cũng chẳng coi trời ra gì: ngang ngược, làm càn, không ai trị nổi. Dùng cho kẻ phạm pháp, kẻ ỷ thế hiếp người, và cả khi mắng trẻ con quá nghịch.
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): etymology of “vô pháp vô thiên” = 無法無天 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “vô pháp vô thiên” (vo-phap-vo-thien). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “无法无天” mean?
Respecting neither the law nor any higher authority; wild and unrestrained. Used for criminals and bullies, and also, half seriously, for very badly behaved children. Literally: no law, no heaven
Is “无法无天” formal or informal?
无法无天 is generally neutral.