Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「攫為己有」 and how it’s used.
The Chinese idiom 「攫為己有」 we’re introducing today is explained in detail below, along with its meaning and usage.
Grab: seize. There are ways to take something that belongs to someone else by force and claim it as one’s own.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jué wéi jǐ yǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fok3 wai6/wai4 gei2 yau5
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