Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「郢人運斧」, explained here.
Here’s the idiom 「郢人運斧」, with its definition and practical application described below.
A metaphor for mature and superb skills. Same as “Ying carpenter wielding an axe”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐng rén yùn fǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ying5 yan4 wan6 fu2
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