急如星火 — Chinese idiom
急如星火
jí rú xīng huǒ
Meaning
- lit. as hurried as a shooting star ; requiring immediate action
- extremely urgent
Character by character
- 急jíanxious, worried; hasty, quick; pressing, urgent
- 如rúas, as if, like, such as, supposing
- 星xīngstar, planet; a point of light
- 火huǒfire, flame; to burn; anger, rage
Idioms sharing a character
- 不急之务 bù jí zhī wù
- 倒悬之急 dào xuán zhī jí
- 心急如焚 xīn jí rú fén
- 急不可待 jí bù kě dài
- 急人之难 jí rén zhī nàn
- 急功近利 jí gōng jìn lì
- 急于求成 jí yú qiú chéng
- 急转直下 jí zhuǎn zhí xià
- 情急智生 qíng jí zhì shēng
- 操之过急 cāo zhī guò jí
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