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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「任其自然」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Ren: to let; its: pronoun, he, it. Allow people or things to develop naturally.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rèn qí zì rán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yam6 kei4 ji6 yin4

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