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Here is the Chinese idiom 「一相情願」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Yi Xiang: Also written as “Yi Xiang”, on one hand. It refers to a one-sided desire without considering whether the other party agrees or whether the objective conditions are met.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī xiàng qíng yuàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 seung2 ching4 yun2

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