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刻不容缓

kè bù róng huǎn

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 刻不容緩

刻不容缓 (kè bù róng huǎn) means "to brook no delay; to demand immediate action". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 刻不容缓 means

1. to brook no delay
2. to demand immediate action

The characters in 刻不容缓

• 刻kèquarter (hour); moment; to carve
• 不bùno; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 容róngto hold; to contain; to allow
• 缓huǎnslow; unhurried; sluggish

Where 刻不容缓 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · gāng–kě (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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