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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「因敵取資」, with details below.

The featured idiom 「因敵取資」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Because: rely on, depend on; capital: property, resources. Obtain resources and supplies from the enemy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yīn dí qǔ zī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan1 dik6 cheui2 ji1

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