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急

急

Translingual

Han character

急 (radical 61 心+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓一心 (NMP) or 弓尸心 (NSP), four-corner 27337, composition ⿱刍心)

References

  • KangXi: page 381, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10475
  • Dae Jaweon: page 710, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2281, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6025

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 急

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 急
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (及) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
趿 *sqʰɯːb
鈒 *sqʰɯːb, *sqʰrɯb
靸 *sqʰɯːb, *sqʰaːb
馺 *sqʰɯːb
砐 *ŋɡɯːb
魥 *ŋɡɯːb, *kʰab
扱 *skʰrɯːb
笈 *skʰrɯːb, *ɡrab, *ɡab, *ɡrɯb
衱 *ɡrab, *kab
极 *ɡrab, *ɡab
昅 *ɡab
雭 *sqʰrɯb
急 *krɯb
級 *krɯb
汲 *krɯb
芨 *krɯb
伋 *krɯb
彶 *krɯb
及 *ɡrɯb
岌 *ŋɡrɯb
吸 *qʰrɯb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *krɯb) : phonetic 及 ‎(OC *ɡrɯb) + semantic 心 ‎(“heart”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 急
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 緝 (142)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 居立切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠiɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚip̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kiep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kjip̚/
Li
Rong		 /kjəp̚/
Wang
Li		 /kĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ki̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ji
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 急
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kip ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k](r)əp/
English urgent

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 急
Reading # 1/1
No. 5658
Phonetic
component		 及
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 急
Old
Chinese		 /*krɯb/

Definitions

急

  1. rapid; quick
  2. rapidly; quickly
  3. urgent; pressing
  4. urgency; emergency
  5. to hurry; to hasten
  6. to be eager to help
  7. irascible; hot-tempered
  8. angry; vexed
  9. to be anxious
  10. to worry; to be worried

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

急

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Adjectival noun

急 ‎(-na inflection, hiragana きゅう, romaji kyū)

  1. sudden
  2. immediate, rapid

Inflection

Korean

Hanja

急 • ‎(geup) (hangeul 급, revised geup, McCune-Reischauer kŭp, Yale kup)

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Vietnamese

Han character

急 (cấp, gấp, kép, kíp, quắp)

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