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疏而不漏

shūérbùlòu

loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子 Lǎozǐ); the way of Heaven is fair, but the…

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

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loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子 Lǎozǐ); the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 疏而不漏 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 疏而不漏 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

俗话说:天无绝人之路;可俗话又说:天网恢恢,疏而不漏!sú huà shuō: tiān wú jué rén zhī lù; kě sú huà yòu shuō: tiān wǎng huī huī, shū ér bù lòu!

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法网恢恢,疏而不漏,恶有恶报这句话,他今天总算亲身体会了。fǎ wǎng huī huī, shū ér bù lòu, è yǒu è bào zhè jù huà, tā jīn tiān zǒng suàn qīn shēn tǐ huì le。

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The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

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What does 疏而不漏 mean in Chinese?

疏而不漏 (shūérbùlòu) means loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子 Lǎozǐ); the way of Heaven is fair, but the….

How do you pronounce 疏而不漏?

疏而不漏 is pronounced shūérbùlòu.

Is 疏而不漏 an HSK word?

疏而不漏 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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