一念之間
yī​niàn​zhī​jiān

in a flash of thought

  • created sense approved 一念之间/一念之間 · yī​niàn​zhī​jiān · in a flash of thought — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    一念之间 / 一念之間

    yī​niàn​zhī​jiān

    in a flash of thought

    in a single moment of thinking; the split second in which a thought or decision occurs

    yí​niàn​zhī​jiān

    一念 (literal) → 一念 · yī​niàn · a single thought 之间 (literal) → 之间/之間 · zhī​jiān · during

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense