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天經地義

天經地義

See also: 天经地义

Chinese

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|- ! !day; sky; heaven

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classics; sacred book; pass through; to undergo; scripture

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earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); -ly

!justice; righteousness; meaning |- !trad. (天經地義) | | | | |- !simp. (天经地义) | | | | |}

Idiom

天經地義

  1. conforming to the traditional Chinese notion of the rules of heaven and the principles of Earth; that which is taken as a matter of course; proper practice or convention; time-honoured principle