適值

简 适值 · 繁 適值
Mandarin · pinyin shì zhí

Meanings

  1. just at that time
  2. as it happens
  3. by good luck, just then
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值
zhí · price
适
shì · kuò · go, reach; appropriate, suitable
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4–2 · shi4 zhi2

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  1. (literary) as luck would have it; as it turns out, by lucky coincidence

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