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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「握雲拿霧」, with more below.

Today’s idiom is 「握雲拿霧」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

Ride the clouds. It means being good at seizing military opportunities. Same as “grasp the fog and hold the clouds”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wò yún ná wù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ak1 wan4 na2/na4 mou6

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