Memory phrase for the Kanji: 急
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急 |
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Hanzi-Trainer
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Meaning
| urgent, pressing, rapid, hurried
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Pronunciation |
jí |
Explanation |
From top: inflected person ⺈, hand  /彐, heart 心 |
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The inflected person holds the hand to the heart, because he was in an urgent hurry. (and now is exhausted)
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Radicals
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急
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urgent, pressing | |
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心
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heart | Image of a heart with coronary arteries. |
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hand | A hand with the forearm at the right and fingers stretched out to the left. |
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彐
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hand | Traditionally, the radical 58 has the meaning: pig's head, or pig's snout. The trainer always uses it as “hand”, i.e. as a variant of , which shows a hand with the fingers pointing to the left. This often appears to be etymologically justified. |
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Vocabulary
| 紧急 |
jǐn jí |
urgent; emergency |
| 急剧 |
jí jù |
rapid; sudden |
| 急忙 |
jí máng |
hastily |
| 急躁 |
jí zào |
irritable; irascible; impetuous |
| 湍急 |
tuān jí |
rapid (flow of water) |
| 急遽 |
jí jù |
rapid; sudden |
| 急遽 |
jí jù |
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