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This introduction highlights the idiom 「食親財黑」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Refers to people who are greedy, selfish and like to take advantage of others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí qīn cái hēi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sik6 chan1 choi4 hak1

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