手到拈来
shǒu​dào​niān​lái

easy to do

  • created sense approved 手到拈来/手到拈來 · shǒu​dào​niān​lái · easy to do — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    手到拈来 / 手到拈來

    shǒu​dào​niān​lái

    easy to do

    to be accomplished with no effort at all; literally, to stretch out one's hand and pick it up

    手 (literal) → 手 · shǒu · hand 到 (literal) → 到 · dào · to arrive 拈 (literal) → 拈 · niān · to pick up 来 (literal) → 来/來 · lái · to come

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense