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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「明如指掌」, with more below.

Here’s the idiom 「明如指掌」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Describes being very clear about a situation, as if pointing to one’s own palm to show others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

míng rú zhǐ zhǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ming4 yu4 ji2 jeung2

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