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灵机一动

líng jī yī dòng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 靈機一動

灵机一动 (líng jī yī dòng) means "a bright idea suddenly occurs (idiom); to hit upon an inspiration; to be struck by a brainwave". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 灵机一动 means

1. a bright idea suddenly occurs (idiom); to hit upon an inspiration
2. to be struck by a brainwave

The characters in 灵机一动

• 灵língquick; alert; efficacious
• 机jī(bound form) machine; mechanism; (bound form) aircraft; (bound form) an opportunity
• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 动dòng(of sth) to move; to set in movement; to displace

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