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Today, we explore the idiom 「惟利是趨」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Only concerned with profit, nothing else matters.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wéi lì shì qū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wai4 lei6 si6 cheui1

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