游刃有余 — Chinese idiom
游刃有余
yóu rèn yǒu yú
Traditional: 遊刃有餘
Meaning
- handling a butcher's cleaver with ease ; to do sth skillfully and easily
Character by character
- 游yóuto wander, to travel, to tour, to roam
- 刃rènedged tool, cutlery, knife edge
- 有yǒuto have, to own, to possess; to exist
- 余yúsurplus, remainder; surname
Idioms sharing a character
- 优游自得 yōu yóu zì dé
- 力争上游 lì zhēng shàng yóu
- 周游列国 zhōu yóu liè guó
- 散兵游勇 sǎn bīng yóu yǒng
- 游移不定 yóu yí bù dìng
- 旧地重游 jiù dì chóng yóu
- 釜底游鱼 fǔ dǐ yóu yú
- 兵不血刃 bīng bù xuè rèn
- 迎刃而解 yíng rèn ér jiě
- 一无所有 yī wú suǒ yǒu
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