急 (jí)
urgent / anxious / in a hurry
How 急 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- ⺈ — knife
- Traditional
- 急
- Simplified
- 急 (unchanged)
Components
- ⺈ knife
- 彐 pig snout
- 心 heart
Common words using 急
- 著急 zháojí
- to worry; to feel anxious; Taiwan pron. [zhao1 ji2]
- 心急 xīnjí
- hurried; ruffled; impatient
- 急促 jícù
- urgent; hurried and brief; rushing
- 急切 jíqiè
- eager; impatient
- 急剎車 jíshāchē
- emergency braking
- 急劇 jíjù
- rapid; sudden
- 急功近利 jígōngjìnlì
- seeking instant benefit (idiom); shortsighted vision, looking only for fast return
- 急匆匆 jícōngcōng
- hurried; hasty
- 急忙 jímáng
- hastily
- 急急忙忙 jíjímángmáng
- hurriedly
- 急性 jíxìng
- acute
- 急性子 jíxìngzi
- impetuous person; excitable person
急 in a sentence
不要急，慢慢來，我們還有時間。
Búyào jí, mànman lái, wǒmen háiyǒu shíjiān.
“Don't rush, take your time; we still have time.”
How common is 急?
急 is the 656th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 81.5% of all running text.
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