急
急 — geup
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 급할 급
- Romanization
- geup
- English
- quick, quickly; urgent, pressing
- Mandarin
- jí
- Japanese on'yomi
- キュウ, コウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- いそ.ぐ いそ.ぎ せ.く
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #309 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 心 (61, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+6025
How 急 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 急 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 及, 心.
Korean example words with 急
- 급화急禍 Korean gloss: 급한 재앙
- 급경急境 Korean gloss: 위급한 경우
- 급속急速 Korean gloss: 급하고 빠름
- 급용急用 Korean gloss: 급히 쓸 것
- 급환急患 Korean gloss: 위급한 환자
- 급전急錢 Korean gloss: 급하게 쓸 돈
- 급처急處 Korean gloss: 급하게 처분함
- 긴급緊急 Korean gloss: 긴요하고 급함
- 급매急賣 Korean gloss: 물품을 급히 팖
- 급증急症 Korean gloss: 아주 위급한 병
- 급감急減 Korean gloss: 급작스럽게 줄어듦
- 급병急病 Korean gloss: 병세가 위급한 병
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 急
- 緊急きんきゅう urgency; emergency
- 急きゅう sudden; abrupt; unexpected
- 急速きゅうそく rapid (e.g. progress)
- 早急そうきゅう immediate; prompt; quick
- 急激きゅうげき sudden; abrupt; rapid
- 急性きゅうせい acute (illness)
- 急いでいそいで hurriedly; in haste; in a rush
- 急増きゅうぞう rapid increase; sharp rise; proliferation
- 急進きゅうしん rapid progress; radical progress
- 救急きゅうきゅう first-aid; emergency (aid)
- 特急とっきゅう limited express (train for which a limited-express ticket is required); limited express (train making a limited no. of stops); great hurry
- 救急車きゅうきゅうしゃ ambulance
Other hanja read “급”
Other hanja with radical 心
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences