4 characters Idiom and proverb 26 572

Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「操奇計贏」 below.

Here’s the idiom 「操奇計贏」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Qi: rare goods; Ying: profit. Get hold of rare goods and calculate your profits. Describes merchants hoarding goods to make huge profits.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cāo qí jì yíng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chou1 kei4 gai3/gai2 yeng4

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