The Chinese Radical: 急


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urgent, pressing    急

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 3
urgent, pressing, rapid, hurried

From top: inflected person , hand /, heart
The inflected person holds the hand to the heart, because he was in an urgent hurry. (and now is exhausted)
JLPT HSK 5
to hasten, to hurry, to walk fast, tendency

Left: to walk/go (On earth feet have to walk.), right: mowing grass (here: hurry [The bent person holds with the hand at the heart because he was in a hurry.]
Walking in a hurry means: to hasten.
JLPT HSK 5
stable, settled, firm, reliable
wěn
Left: rice plant , right: urgent, pressing (The bent person holds hand to heart , because he was in a hurry.
When the rice plants grow quickly, (the business) is stable and settled.
JLPT HSK 6
concealed, secret, hidden, crypto-...
yǐn
Left: hill , right: urgent/hurry (The bent person holds hand / to heart , because he was in hurry (and now is exhausted)
He used the hill, for urgently hiding and concealing it.
JLPT HSK 6
addiction, craving, strong urge
yǐn
Left: disease (An ice-cold building 广 makes sick.), inside: conceal,hide 隐 (In the hill it was urgently hidden.)
A disease, that is hidden, is the addiction.

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