分秒必争 — Chinese idiom
分秒必争
fēn miǎo bì zhēng
Traditional: 分秒必爭
Meaning
- seize every minute and second ; not a minute to lose
- every moment counts
Character by character
- 分fēnto divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of ti
- 秒miǎoa second; a corn kernel; measure word for time
- 必bìsurely, certainly; must; will
- 争zhēngto dispute, to fight, to contend, to strive
Idioms sharing a character
- 一分一毫 yī fēn yī háo
- 一分为二 yī fēn wéi èr
- 不分伯仲 bù fēn bó zhòng
- 不分胜负 bù fēn shèng fù
- 不分彼此 bù fēn bǐ cǐ
- 不分皂白 bù fēn zào bái
- 五马分尸 wǔ mǎ fēn shī
- 分崩离析 fēn bēng lí xī
- 分而治之 fēn ér zhì zhī
- 分身乏术 fēn shēn fá shù
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