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天經地義
天經地義
See also: 天经地义
Chinese
- {| style="clear: right;margin: 1em;border-collapse: collapse;text-align: center"
|- ! !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) | 天 | 經 | 地 | 義 |- !simp. (天经地义) | 天 | 经 | 地 | 义 |}
Idiom
天經地義
- 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