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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「爛如指掌」 explained, free of charge.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「爛如指掌」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

It means knowing it like the back of your hand. Describes a very clear understanding of a situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

làn rú zhǐ zhǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

laan6 yu4 ji2 jeung2

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