千钧一发
Traditional form:
千鈞一髮
Pinyin (reading):
qiānjūnyīfà
Definitions:
- a thousand pounds hangs by a thread (idiom)
- imminent peril
- a matter of life or death
Characters:
- 千 - thousand; many, numerous; very
- 钧 - unit of weight equal to thirty catties; your (formal)
- 一 - one; a, an; alone
- 发 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
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