急 — hurry, emergency, sudden

きゅう急 hurry

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 9 strokes

U+6025 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #309 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1229 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

hurry
emergency
sudden
steep

word

きゅう kyuu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

急(きゅう) kyuu sudden 急(きゅう) 速(そく) kyuusoku rapid 早(さっ) 急(きゅう) sakkyuu urgent 急(きゅう) 行(こう) kyuukou express train 東(とう) 急(きゅう) toukyuu Tokyu (railway company) 急(きゅう) 落(らく) kyuuraku sharp decline 救(きゅう) 急(きゅう) kyuukyuu emergency 救(きゅう) 急(きゅう) 車(しゃ) kyuukyuusha ambulance

いそ iso Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

急(いそ) ぐ isogu to hurry

Appears in idioms

急がば回れ諺

If you are in a hurry, go the long way around

急転直下四字熟語

hurry, revolve, straight, below

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

𠂊 sloping stroke

彐 snout

こころ心 heart #61

Open in Atlas

Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#61 心 heart