指日可待 — Chinese idiom
指日可待
zhǐ rì kě dài
Meaning
- imminent
- just around the corner
Character by character
- 指zhǐfinger, toe; to point, to indicate
- 日rìsun; day; daytime
- 可kěmay, can, -able; possibly
- 待dàito entertain, to receive, to treat; to delay, to w
Idioms sharing a character
- 一弹指顷 yī tán zhǐ qǐng
- 了如指掌 liǎo rú zhǐ zhǎng
- 令人发指 lìng rén fà zhǐ
- 如臂使指 rú bì shǐ zhǐ
- 屈指可数 qū zhǐ kě shǔ
- 弹指之间 tán zhǐ zhī jiān
- 指手画脚 zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
- 指桑骂槐 zhǐ sāng mà huái
- 指腹为婚 zhǐ fù wéi hūn
- 指鸡骂狗 zhǐ jī mà gǒu
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.