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可乘之机

kě chéng zhī jī

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 可乘之機

可乘之机 (kě chéng zhī jī) means "an opportunity that someone (usually a villain or adversary) can exploit". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 可乘之机 means

1. idioman opportunity that someone (usually a villain or adversary) can exploit

The characters in 可乘之机

• 可kě(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit
• 乘chéngto ride; to mount; to make use of
• 之zhī(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的; him; her
• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity

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