"Brink" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 边缘 | biān yuán | edge / fringe / verge / brink / periphery / marginal / borderline |   |
| 几近 | jī jìn | to be on the brink of / to be on the verge of | |
| 危在旦夕 | wēi zài dàn xī | in imminent peril (idiom) / on the brink of crisis | |
| 间不容发 | jiān bù róng fà | (to escape danger etc) by a hair's breadth (idiom) / in a critical state / on the brink of crisis / very close (to happening) / Taiwan pr. [jian4 bu4 rong2 fa3] | |
| 三旬九食 | sān xún jiǔ shí | lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom) / fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation / in dire straits | |
| 濒灭 | bīn miè | on the brink of extinction | |
| 濒近 | bīn jìn | on the brink | |
