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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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