緊
緊 — gin
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 긴할 긴
- Romanization
- gin
- English
- tense, tight, taut; firm, secure
- Mandarin
- jǐn
- Japanese on'yomi
- キン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- し.める し.まる
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #677 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 糸 (120, 8 residual)
- Unicode
- U+7DCA
How 緊 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 緊 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 臤, 糸.
Korean example words with 緊
- 긴급緊急 Korean gloss: 긴요하고 급함
- 긴장緊張 Korean gloss: 마음을 조이고 정신을 바짝 차림
- 일긴一緊 Korean gloss: 가장 긴요함. 또는 가장 긴요한 사람이나 물건
- 긴박하다緊迫 Korean gloss: 매우 다급하고 절박하다
- 긴절하다緊切 Korean gloss: 매우 필요하고 절실하다
- 최긴하다最緊 Korean gloss: 가장 중요하고 요긴하다
- 긴탁하다緊託 Korean gloss: 꼭 들어 달라고 긴하게 부탁하다
- 긴축하다緊縮 Korean gloss: 재정의 기초를 다지기 위하여 지출을 줄이다
- 긴장도緊張度 Korean gloss: 긴장한 정도
- 긴급성緊急性 Korean gloss: 긴요하고 급한 성질
- 긴급책緊急策 Korean gloss: 긴요하고 급한 방책
- 긴박감緊迫感 Korean gloss: 매우 다급하고 절박한 느낌
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 緊
- 緊急きんきゅう urgency; emergency
- 緊張きんちょう tension; strain; nervousness
- 緊密きんみつ rigour; rigor; closeness
- 緊迫きんぱく tension; strain
- 緊縮きんしゅく tightening; shrinkage; contraction
- 緊要きんよう momentous; exigent; urgent
- 喫緊きっきん urgent; pressing; exigent
- 緊急事態宣言きんきゅうじたいせんげん declaration of a state of emergency
- 緊縛きんばく binding tightly; tight binding; (sexual) bondage
- 緊褌きんこん loincloth
- 緊切きんせつ urgent; pressing
- 国緊隊こくきんたい Japan International Cooperation Agency; JICA
Other hanja with radical 糸
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