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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「盈則必虧」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Ying: round. Deficiency: lack. When the moon is full, it is also when the moon is waning. Describes that everything will turn into the opposite when it reaches its extreme.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yíng zé bì kuī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ying4 jak1 bit1 kwai1

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