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The featured idiom 「不臣之心」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Disloyal: not fulfilling the duties of a subject and being disloyal to the emperor in feudal society. It refers to the idea of being disloyal to the emperor. Later it also refers to the ambition to rebel against superiors.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù chén zhī xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 san4 ji1 sam1
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