Keyword
blink
Info
FrequencyTop 200-300
Type
Jōyō 
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KankenLevel 4
Heisig880
Readings
Composed of
eye
claw (radical)
roof without a chimney
dancing legs
Mnemonic

You see with your eyes a pair of huge claws on the roof of a ballroom house, waiting to strike, and a bunch of dancing legs inside. Once the guests finish dancing and try to leave the animal will pounce down from the roof and bite down their necks in a blink of an eye. Don't blink, or you'll miss it.

Used in vocabulary (36 in total)
moment; second; instant
instant; moment; for an instant
instant; moment; (split) second; (in a) flash; (in the) blink of an eye
Examples (45 in total)
He doesn't like to wait until the last moment to do something.
It changed in an instant.
For a moment, I thought I was going to die.