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急中生智
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hit upon a plan (or an idea) in desperation/emergency; suddenly hit on a way out of a predicament Level: 3 This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Characters in this word:急 gap1 - urgent; desperate中 zung1 zung3 - centre; middle; during; average; affected by 生 saang1 sang1 - born; grow; life; alive; unripe 智 zi3 - wisdom; clever |
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: the Cantonese pronunciation of the word in jyutping.
Also, CantoDict uses a unique "asterisk (*)" convention, to show readings such as jyu4*2. For more information please see CantoDict Tone Conventions.
: the Mandarin pronunciation of the word in pinyin (only if present).