刻不容缓 kèbùrónghuǎn▶ Không chậm trễ, không trì hoãn

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không thể tránh khỏi
• 不堪không thể chịu đựng
• 不妨thà rằng; cũng nên
• 不惜không tiếc; không ngần ngại
• 不愧xứng đáng
• 不料Bất ngờ, không ngờ

刻不容缓 is pronounced kèbùrónghuǎn and means “Không chậm trễ, không trì hoãn”. 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.