间不容发 — Chinese idiom
间不容发
jiān bù róng fà
Traditional: 間不容髮
Meaning
- (to escape danger etc) by a hair's breadth
- in a critical state
- on the brink of crisis
- very close (to happening)
- Taiwan pr. [jian4 bu4 rong2 fa3]
Character by character
- 间jiānbetween, among; midpoint; space, place, locality
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 容róngappearance, looks; form, figure; to contain, to ho
- 发fàto issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
Idioms sharing a character
- 人间地狱 rén jiān dì yù
- 字里行间 zì lǐ háng jiān
- 弹指之间 tán zhǐ zhī jiān
- 挑拨离间 tiǎo bō lí jiàn
- 田间地头 tián jiān dì tóu
- 疏不间亲 shū bù jiàn qīn
- 瞬息之间 shùn xī zhī jiān
- 亲密无间 qīn mì wú jiàn
- 转眼之间 zhuǎn yǎn zhī jiān
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
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