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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.

References

  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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