急 (jí): meaning and stroke order
急 (jí) means urgent, pressing, rapid, hurried, worried, to make (sb) anxious.
急
- Simplified
- 急
- Traditional
- 急 (same form)
- Pinyin
- jí
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Stroke order of 急
急
- jí urgent; pressing
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 急
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jí
- urgent
- pressing
- rapid
- hurried
- worried
- to make (sb) anxious
Radical and structure
- 急
- Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 9 strokes · 刍 on top, 心 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 急
- 急着 jí zhe urgently
- 着急 zháo jí to worry; to feel anxious; to feel a sense of urgency; to be in a hurry
- 急忙 jí máng hastily
- 紧急 jǐn jí urgent; emergency
急 in our stories
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龙门在黄河上，很高很高，水也很急。
Lóngmén zài Huáng Hé shàng hěn gāo hěn gāo shuǐ yě hěn jí
The Dragon Gate is on the Yellow River: very, very high, with a fast current.
From the story The little carp's decision HSK 3
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这时，旁边一位女士的电脑出了问题，她马上要给客户做演示，急得满头大汗。
zhè shí pángbiān yí wèi nǚshì de diànnǎo chū le wèntí tā mǎshàng yào gěi kèhù zuò yǎnshì jí de mǎntóu dàhàn
Just then the laptop of a woman beside him went wrong. She had a client presentation any minute and was dripping with sweat.
From the story The old man who lost his horse HSK 6
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张别古又羞又急，回去问瓦盆，盆里的声音委屈地说：“大堂门口有门神，我一个冤魂，怎么敢进去？”
Zhāng Biégǔ yòu xiū yòu jí huíqu wèn wǎpén pén lǐ de shēngyīn wěiqu de shuō dàtáng ménkǒu yǒu ménshén wǒ yí gè yuānhún zěnme gǎn jìnqu
Ashamed and anxious, Zhang Biegu went back and asked the basin. The voice said plaintively, "There are door gods at the court entrance. How would a wronged ghost dare go in?"
From the story The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7
Stories using 急
- The little carp's decision HSK 3
- The old man who lost his horse HSK 6
- The tale of the black basin HSK 7–9 · Level 7
- The Dragon Gate and the ordinary fish HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).