漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
急: hurry, emergency
Also: sudden, steep
JLPT N49 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
心 carries the meaning · 𠂊 and ⺕ are drawn in
9 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
キュウkyuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 急用きゅうようurgent business
- 急行きゅうこうexpress
- 急病きゅうびょうsudden illness
- 特急電車とっきゅうでんしゃexpress train
- 急激なきゅうげきなsudden
- 緊急なきんきゅうなpressing
- 急増するきゅうぞうするproliferate [v.i.]
いそぐisogu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 急ぐいそぐhurry
Also read いそぎ, せく, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)及 (sound) + 心 heart (meaning)
Source: Wiktionary, 急 (rev. 93383960), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“The ancient character once looked like a beating heart with its arteries. Today, 心 represents the very center of who we are—the place where our feelings bloom, our thoughts grow, and our spirit resides.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
⺕
Also built on ⺕
15 in allIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jí
Same form: 急 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 急 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 急 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jí most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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