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Here’s the idiom 「人心惟危」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Wei: yes; Wei: dangerous. It means that people’s desires are dangerous.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rén xīn wéi wēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 sam1 wai4 ngai4
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