| 天 | tiān | day; sky; heaven |
| 网 | wǎng | net; network |
| 恢 | huī | to restore; to recover; great |
| 疏 | shū | to dredge; to clear away obstruction; thin; sparse; scanty; distant (relation); not close; to neglect; negligent; to present a memorial to the Emperor; commentary; annotation; surname Shu |
| 而 | ér | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) |
| 不 | bù | (negative prefix); not; no |
| 漏 | lòu | to leak; to divulge; to leave out by mistake; waterclock or hourglass (old) |
| 天网恢恢 | tiān wǎng huī huī | Heaven's net is wide meshed, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73). |
| 疏而不漏 | shū ér bù lòu | loose, but allows no escape (idiom, from Laozi 老子); the way of Heaven is fair, but the guilty will not escape |
