Yi ru fan zhang

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Yi ru fan zhang (易如反掌 yì rú fǎn zhǎng) is a Chinese four-character idiom (chengyu) meaning "very easy". Literally, it means "as easy as turning over one's hand".

The idiom developed as a paraphrase of two passages in Mencius and was an established four-character idiom by the Qing dynasty at the latest.

It has been compared to the English colloquial idiom, as easy as pie.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tang, Chihsia (2007). "A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENGLISH AND CHINESE IDIOMS WITH FOOD NAMES" (PDF). USTWPL 3: 83-93. National Tsing Hua University. pp. 89–90. Retrieved 29 November 2010.
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