听天由命
Traditional form:
聽天由命
Pinyin (reading):
tīngtiānyóumìng
Definitions:
- (idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
Characters:
- 听 - to hear, to listen; to understand; to obey
- 天 - sky, heaven; god, celestial
- 由 - cause, reason; from
- 命 - life; destiny, fate, luck; an order, instruction
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