Situations
焦眉之急
초미지급
jiāo méi zhī jí
Cho-mi-ji-geup
焦
그슬릴 초
眉
눈썹 미
之
갈 지
急
급할 급
Character by character
Meaning
Urgent enough to singe your eyebrows.
Origin
From Chan Buddhist dialogue, in an exchange about what matters most urgently.
How it is used
Used for deadlines and incident response — things that must be handled now.
Hanja焦眉之急
Simplified焦眉之急
Korean reading초미지급
Pinyinjiāo méi zhī jí
Frequently asked questions
Q. What does Cho-mi-ji-geup mean?
焦眉之急 · Urgent enough to singe your eyebrows.
Q. Where does Cho-mi-ji-geup come from?
From Chan Buddhist dialogue, in an exchange about what matters most urgently.
Q. How is Cho-mi-ji-geup used?
Used for deadlines and incident response — things that must be handled now.
Idioms in the same group
四面楚歌 Sa-myeon-cho-gaChu songs on all four sides — surrounded with nowhere to turn.進退兩難 Jin-toe-yang-nanHard to advance and hard to retreat.累卵之危 Nu-ran-ji-wiAs precarious as a stack of eggs.風前燈火 Pung-jeon-deung-hwaA lamp flame before the wind — an extremely precarious state.五里霧中 O-ri-mu-jungInside a fog five li deep — completely unable to make sense of things.雪上加霜 Seol-sang-ga-sangFrost on top of snow — one misfortune stacked on another.
The idioms used in Korea mix phrases from the Chinese classics with ones coined in Korea. Where an expression is not used in China, the entry says so.