傷天害理

Chinese

		injure; injury; wound	day; sky; heaven	to do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm to do harm to; to cause trouble to; harm; evil; calamity	to manage; to heed; to put in order to manage; to heed; to put in order; reason; logic; science; inner principle or structure
trad. (傷天害理)		傷	天	害	理
simp. (伤天害理)		伤	天	害	理
Literally: “to offend Heaven and reason”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāngtiānhàilǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄤ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄞˋ ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng¹ tin¹ hoi⁶ lei⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): siong-thian-hāi-lí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāngtiānhàilǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄤ ㄊㄧㄢ ㄏㄞˋ ㄌㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shangtianhàilǐ
    • Wade–Giles: shang¹-tʻien¹-hai⁴-li³
    • Yale: shāng-tyān-hài-lǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shangtianhaylii
    • Palladius: шантяньхайли (šantjanʹxajli)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ xaɪ̯⁵¹ li²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: soeng¹ tin¹ hoi⁶ lei⁵
    • Yale: sēung tīn hoih léih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng¹ tin¹ hoi⁶ lei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng¹ tin¹ hoi⁶ léi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ⁵⁵ tʰiːn⁵⁵ hɔːi̯²² lei̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siong-thian-hāi-lí
    • Tâi-lô: siong-thian-hāi-lí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: siongtienhaixlie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² hai²²⁻²¹ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /siɔŋ³³ tʰiɛn³³ hai⁴¹⁻²² li⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² hai²²⁻²¹ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ hai³³⁻¹¹ li⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ hai³³⁻²¹ li⁴¹/

Idiom

傷天害理

1. atrocious; outrageous; inhuman