天羅地網

Chinese

	day; sky; heaven	to collect; to gather; to catch to collect; to gather; to catch; to shift; gauze	earth; ground; field earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly	net; network
trad. (天羅地網)	天	羅	地	網
simp. (天罗地网)	天	罗	地	网
Literally: “nets above and snares below”.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tiānluódìwǎng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄨㄤˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ lo⁴ dei⁶ mong⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): thian-lô-tōe-bāng / thian-lô-tē-bāng / thian-lô-tē-bóng / thian-lô-tōe-bóng

(Teochew, Peng'im): tiang¹ lo⁵ di⁷ mang⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tiānluódìwǎng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢㄌㄨㄛˊ ㄉㄧˋ ㄨㄤˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tianluódìwǎng
  - Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-lo²-ti⁴-wang³
  - Yale: tyān-lwó-dì-wǎng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianluodihwoang
  - Palladius: тяньлодиван (tjanʹlodivan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ lu̯ɔ³⁵ ti⁵¹ wɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tin¹ lo⁴ dei⁶ mong⁵
  - Yale: tīn lòh deih móhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ lo⁴ dei⁶ mong⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ lo⁴ déi⁶ mong⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ lɔː²¹ tei̯²² mɔːŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-lô-tōe-bāng
  - Tâi-lô: thian-lô-tuē-bāng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tienloi'doexbang
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² lo²⁴⁻²² tue²²⁻²¹ baŋ²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-lô-tē-bāng
  - Tâi-lô: thian-lô-tē-bāng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tienloi'dexbang
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² lo²⁴⁻²² te²²⁻²¹ baŋ²²/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-lô-tē-bóng
  - Tâi-lô: thian-lô-tē-bóng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tienloi'dexborng
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ lo²⁴⁻¹¹ te³³⁻¹¹ bɔŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ lɤ²³⁻³³ te³³⁻²¹ bɔŋ⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thian-lô-tōe-bóng
  - Tâi-lô: thian-lô-tuē-bóng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tienloi'doexborng
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ lo²⁴⁻¹¹ tue³³⁻¹¹ bɔŋ⁵³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: tiang¹ lo⁵ di⁷ mang⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thiang lô tī măng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiaŋ³³⁻²³ lo⁵⁵ ti¹¹ maŋ³⁵/

Idiom

天羅地網

(figuratively) far-flung network; inescapable net; tight encirclement with no escape (Classifier: 張／张 m)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (天羅地網):

→ Japanese: 天(てん)羅(ら)地(ち)網(もう) (tenrachimō)
→ Korean: 천라지망(天羅地網) (cheollajimang)
→ Vietnamese: thiên la địa võng (天羅地網)