急
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urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 心 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 急
- Common rank
- #620
- Unicode
- U+6025
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Formation & memory
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Words with 急
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人有三急 | (jocular) to need to answer the call of nature | |
| 急性子 | impetuous person; excitable person | |
| 急性人 | impetuous person; excitable person | |
| 情急之下 | in a moment of desperation | |
| 里急后重 | (medicine) tenesmus | |
| 心急如火 | see 心急如焚[xin1 ji2 ru2 fen2] | |
| 急人之难 | anxious to help others resolve difficulties (idiom) | |
| 亚急性 | subacute | |
| 急公好义 | public-spirited | |
| 急性病 | acute illness; fig. impetuous; impatient | |
| 场区应急 | site area emergency (nuclear facility emergency classification) | |
| 不急之务 | (idiom) a matter of no great urgency | |
| 急如星火 | lit. as hurried as a shooting star (idiom); requiring immediate action; extremely urgent | |
| 场外应急 | general emergency (or "off-site emergency") (nuclear facility emergency classification) | |
| 急行军 | rapid advance; forced march | |
| 急转直下 | to develop rapidly after abrupt turn (idiom); dramatic change | |
| 急于星火 | see 急如星火[ji2 ru2 xing1 huo3] | |
| 心急 | anxious; impatient | |
| 急性 | acute | |
| 性急 | impatient |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 刍 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 刍 sound part | to mow, to cut grass; hay, fodder | |
| 趋 | to hurry, to hasten; to approach, to be attracted to | |
| 皱 | wrinkles, creases, folds | |
| 雏 | chick, fledging; infant, toddler | |
| 邹 | an ancient state; surname | |
| 诌 | to quip, to play with words, to talk nonsense | |
| 驺 | mounted escort; groom | |
| 绉 | crepe, imitation silk; wrinkles, creases |