刻不容缓 kèbùrónghuǎn▶ No admitir demora

Stroke order

刻不容缓 is written in 34 strokes across 4 characters.

• 刻 — 8 strokes
• 不 — 4 strokes
• 容 — 10 strokes
• 缓 — 12 strokes

Senses

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

Related words

• 不免inevitable
• 不堪no soportar
• 不妨bien podría
• 不惜no escatimar; no dudar
• 不愧Digno
• 不料Inesperadamente

刻不容缓 is pronounced kèbùrónghuǎn and means “No admitir demora”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 刻不容缓 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.