4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 162

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Here’s the idiom 「天道人事」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Way of Heaven: Natural Law. Human resources: what human power can do. The laws of nature and human affairs cannot be violated. It means the general trend.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tiān dào rén shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tin1 dou6 yan4 si6

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