经济危机

經濟危機
jīngjì wēijī
noun #33,701

Meanings

  1. 1 economic crisis
  2. 2 economic downturn of systemic scale

Examples

Èr líng líng bā nián de jīngjì wēijī yǐngxiǎng le quánshìjiè.
The 2008 economic crisis affected the whole world.
Gèguó zhèngfǔ liánshǒu yìngduì jīngjì wēijī.
Governments joined hands to respond to the economic crisis.

Tips

memory
危机 (crisis) is famously broken down as (danger) + (opportunity) — a popular but oversimplified claim ( here just means 'juncture/moment'). Still a memorable decomposition: economic + danger-moment = economic crisis.

Stroke Order

jīng
wēi