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We’re presenting the idiom 「欲壑難填」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Desire: desire; ravine: deep valley. Describes desire as a deep valley that is difficult to fill. It means being very greedy and never being satisfied.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yù hè nán tián

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yuk6 kok3 naan4 tin4

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