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Today’s idiom is 「擒賊擒王」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

Capture: catch, seize. It means that in combat, one must first capture the main enemy. It is a metaphor that one should grasp the key points when doing things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qín zéi qín wáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kam4 chaak2 kam4 wong4

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