at the critical moment; in the nick of time
trad. 在千鈞一髮之際
Also written 在千鈞一髮之際【zài qiān jūn yī fà zhī jì】
Characters in this word
7在
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to exist; to be alive, (of sb or sth) to be (located) at, (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
- Pinyin
- zài
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 6 of 2500
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
之
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(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de5]), him, her, it
- Pinyin
- zhī
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 475 of 2500
际
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border, edge, boundary, interval, between, inter-, to meet, time, occasion, to meet with (circumstances)
- Pinyin
- jì
- Traditional
- 際
- Strokes
- 7