情急智生 — Chinese idiom
情急智生
qíng jí zhì shēng
Meaning
- inspiration in a moment of desperation
- also written 情急之下
Character by character
- 情qíngemotion, feeling, sentiment
- 急jíanxious, worried; hasty, quick; pressing, urgent
- 智zhìwisdom, knowledge, intelligence
- 生shēnglife, lifetime; birth; growth
Idioms sharing a character
- 一见钟情 yī jiàn zhōng qíng
- 七情六欲 qī qíng liù yù
- 不情之请 bù qíng zhī qǐng
- 不近人情 bù jìn rén qíng
- 人之常情 rén zhī cháng qíng
- 入情入理 rù qíng rù lǐ
- 反脸无情 fǎn liǎn wú qíng
- 合情合理 hé qíng hé lǐ
- 含情脉脉 hán qíng mò mò
- 径情直遂 jìng qíng zhí suì
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