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Today’s idiom is 「冤冤相報」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

Injustice: vengeance; retaliation: revenge, retribution. A Buddhist saying that believes that there will always be retribution for grudges.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuān yuān xiàng bào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yun1 yun1 seung2 bou3

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