(lit.) a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom); (fig.) (at the) critical; perilous (moment)
trad. 千鈞一髮
Also written 千鈞一髮【qiān jūn yī fà】
Characters in this word
4千
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thousand
- Pinyin
- qiān
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 5441 of 2500
钧
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30 catties, great, your (honorific)
- Pinyin
- jūn
- Traditional
- 鈞
- Strokes
- 9
一
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one, single, a (article), as soon as, entire; whole; all; throughout, "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1), also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- Pinyin
- yī
- Strokes
- 1
- Frequency
- 158 of 2500
发
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to send out, to show (one's feeling), to issue, to develop, to make a bundle of money, classifier for gunshots (rounds)
- Pinyin
- fā
- Traditional
- 發
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 2017 of 2500