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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「蛟龍戲水」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Discover the idiom 「蛟龍戲水」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

It is a metaphor that weapons such as knives, guns, sticks and clubs make people use them with ease and flexibility. Describes superb and sophisticated martial arts skills.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiāo lóng xì shuǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaau1 lung4 hei3 seui2

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