Kanippatsu

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間一髪 (Kanippatsu) is a Japanese noun meaning “hair's breadth”.

Meanings

  1. nounhair's breadth

Examples

  • That was a close call.

  • He escaped being run over by a hair's breadth.

  • The speeding car missed the child, who ran out into the road, by only a hairsbreadth.

Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).

Kanji in 間一髪

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