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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「達觀知命」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

Optimism: means to let everything take its course or to be open-minded; fate: destiny; knowing one’s destiny: means to know one’s will. It means to be open-minded about unhappy things, let fate take its course, and not worry about anything.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dá guān zhī mìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daat6 gun1 ji1 meng6

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