liǎo rú zhǐ zhǎng

了如指掌 (liǎo rú zhǐ zhǎng) is a Chinese word meaning “to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom); to know (a person, a place etc) inside out”.

Meanings

  1. 1to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom)
  2. 2to know (a person, a place etc) inside out

Characters in 了如指掌

了le · (completed action marker)如rú · as指zhǐ · finger掌zhǎng · palm of the hand

Related words

了(completed action marker)了to finish了(of eyes) bright了unofficial variant of 瞭[liao4]如果if; in case; in the event that为了for; for the purpose of; in order to如何how了解to understand了解to understand如此like this; so; such极了extremely如as

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