Illustration: In a small pottery studio, a finished bowl teeters on the very edge of a workbench, most of its weight already beyond the tabletop. A potter lunges toward it, one fingertip barely touching its rim before it drops toward the hard floor.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

瀬せ戸と際ぎわ

setogiwa

brink, critical moment

Example sentences

父ちちの店みせは閉店へいてんの瀬戸際せとぎわにある。
My father’s shop is on the brink of closing.
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交渉こうしょうは決裂けつれつの瀬戸際せとぎわまで進すすんだ。
The negotiations came close to breaking down.
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チームは敗退はいたいの瀬戸際せとぎわから逆転ぎゃくてんした。
The team came back from the brink of elimination.
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Kanji in 瀬戸際

瀬rapids; currentOnライKunせ
戸door; counter for housesOnコKunと
際occasion; sideOnサイKunきわ

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