きき
Meanings
Noun
1. crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
But at that moment, I realized that the crisis had not passed at all.
Pitch accent
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Composed of
danger; Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
chance; opportunity; machine; aircraft; counter for aircraft; counter for (remaining) lives
Used in vocabulary (34 in total)
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
by a hair's breadth; in the nick of time; touch and go; close call; critical moment
existential threat; life-or-death crisis
Examples (29 in total)
I felt that my life was in danger.
The immediate crisis has passed.
From there on, it was a series of crises.