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We strive to offer you free Chinese learning resources. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, which are rich in meaning and can be used in various situations. Today’s idiom is 「違天害理」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「違天害理」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Doing things cruelly goes against the ethics of heaven. Same as “going against the will of heaven and against reason”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wéi tiān hài lǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wai4 tin1 hoi6 lei5

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