倒悬之急

dào xuán zhī jí

释义

1. lit. the crisis of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
2. dire straits

倒悬之急 的构成词

• 之 zhī: (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de])
• 倒 dǎo: to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally
• 倒 dào: to invert; to place upside down or frontside back
• 急 jí: urgent
• 悬 xuán: to hang or suspend
• 倒悬 dào xuán: lit. to hang upside down