4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 553

Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「手到拈來」. Explanation below.

Introducing the idiom 「手到拈來」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

It is a metaphor that something is easy to do.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǒu dào niān lái

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sau2 dou3/dou2 nim1 loi4

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