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遊刃有餘
  jau4 jan6 jau5 jyu4   jyutping
  you2 ren4 you3 yu2   pinyin
handling a butcher's cleaver with ease (idiom); to do sth skillfully and easily


Level: 3
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
遊刃有餘 / 游刃有余

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Characters in this word:

 jau4  -  travel; play; amusement
 jan6  -  blade of a knife; kill with a knife
 jau5 jau6  -  have; there is
 jyu4  -  remaining; remainder; spare; more than
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