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Learn about the idiom 「甘貧樂道」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Be willing to suffer poverty: be willing to endure poverty; be happy with the Tao: be happy to uphold the Tao. Willing to endure poverty and happy to uphold the truth. It is the attitude towards life advocated by Confucianism.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gān pín lè dào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gam1 pan4 lok6/ngok6 dou6
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