聽之任之 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 听之任之 tīngzhīrènzhī ㄊㄧㄥ ㄓ ㄖㄣˋ ㄓ to take a laissez-faire attitude to turn a blind eye (towards sth undesirable) idiom Character by character 聽(tīng)listen to 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 任(rèn)assign 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0