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Let’s dive into the idiom 「少私寡欲」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
Few: few; desire: desire. It means that a servant has little desire.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shǎo sī guǎ yù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
siu2 si1 gwa2 yuk6
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