可乘之機 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 可乘之机 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. kěchéngzhījī ㄎㄜˇ ㄔㄥˊ ㄓ ㄐㄧ an opportunity that someone (usually a villain or adversary) can exploit idiom Character by character 可(kě)can 乘(chéng)ride 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) 機(jī)machine 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