化险为夷 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 化險為夷 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. huàxiǎnwéiyí ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄒㄧㄢˇ ㄨㄟˊ ㄧˊ to turn peril into safety (idiom) to avert disaster Character by character 化(huà)make into 险(xiǎn)danger 为(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 夷(yí)non-Han people, esp. to the East of China A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT