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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「聚斂無厭」.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「聚斂無厭」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Accumulate: plunder and exploit. Tired: full, satisfied. Try your best to collect money and never be satisfied. Describes being extremely greedy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jù liǎn wú yàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeui6 lim5 mou4 yim3

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