天不假年

Chinese

		day; sky; heaven	not; no	vacation; fake; false vacation; fake; false; artificial; to borrow; if; suppose	year
simp. and trad. (天不假年)		天	不	假	年
Literally: “the heavens did not loan years”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tiānbùjiǎnián

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢ ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄋㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin¹ bat¹ gaa² nin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tiānbùjiǎnián
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢ ㄅㄨˋ ㄐㄧㄚˇ ㄋㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tianbùjiǎnián
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien¹-pu⁴-chia³-nien²
    • Yale: tyān-bù-jyǎ-nyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tianbujeanian
    • Palladius: тяньбуцзянянь (tjanʹbuczjanjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn⁵⁵ pu⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ni̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin¹ bat¹ gaa² nin⁴
    • Yale: tīn bāt gá nìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin¹ bat⁷ gaa² nin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin¹ bed¹ ga² nin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn⁵⁵ pɐt̚⁵ kaː³⁵ niːn²¹/

Idiom

天不假年

1. (someone) did not have a long life