间不容发
Traditional form:
間不容髮
Pinyin (reading):
jiānbùróngfà
Definitions:
- (to escape danger etc) by a hair's breadth (idiom)
- in a critical state
- on the brink of crisis
- very close (to happening)
- Taiwan pr. (jiànbùróngfǎ)
Characters:
- 间 - between, among; midpoint; space, place, locality
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 容 - appearance, looks; form, figure; to contain, to hold
- 发 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
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