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急中生智

jí zhōng shēng zhì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

急中生智 (jí zhōng shēng zhì) means "quick witted in an emergency; able to react resourcefully". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 急中生智 means

1. quick witted in an emergency
2. able to react resourcefully

The characters in 急中生智

• 急jíurgent; pressing; rapid
• 中zhōngwithin; among; in; middle; center; while (doing sth); during
• 生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born; to arise; to occur; to light (a fire)
• 智zhì(literary) wise; wisdom

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