4 characters Idiom and proverb 10 58

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Learn about the idiom 「言與心違」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Words contradict the heart.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yán yǔ xīn wéi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin4 yu5 sam1 wai4

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