缓急相济

Traditional form:

緩急相濟

Pinyin (reading):

huǎnjíxiāngjì

Definitions:

• to help one another in difficulty
• mutual assistance in extremity

Characters:

• 缓 - slow, gradual; to postpone, to delay
• 急 - anxious, worried; hasty, quick; pressing, urgent
• 相 - mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
• 济 - to aid, to help, to relieve; to ferry across

Traditional characters:

• 緩 - slow, gradual; to postpone, to delay
• 急 - anxious, worried; hasty, quick; pressing, urgent
• 相 - mutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
• 濟 - to aid, to help, to relieve; to ferry across