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Chinese begins with basics like characters, builds up to words, and reaches idioms. This free resource introduces advanced idioms like 「鷹拿雁捉」, with details below.

Here’s the idiom 「鷹拿雁捉」, with its definition and practical application described below.

A metaphor for the speed and ferocity of a pursuit.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yīng ná yàn zhuō

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ying1 na2/na4 ngaan6 juk1

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