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急 kanji
hurry, emergency, sudden, steep
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
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On readings
キュウ
Kun readings
いそぐいそぎせく
Words with 急
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —一旦緩急(when) danger threatens; should an emergency occur
- —急転悪化suddenly turning for the worse; sudden deterioration
- —不要不急nonessential and nonurgent; unnecessary
- —急テンポfast tempo
- —緊急電話urgent phone call; emergency phone call
- —救急搬送emergency transport; ambulance transport
- —緊急集会emergency meeting of the upper house of the Diet (in response to dissolution of the lower house)
- —急性脳症acute encephalopathy
- —特急列車limited express train
- —急性中毒acute poisoning; acute intoxication
- —緊急用事emergency tasks; urgent tasks
- —急速充電fast charge
- —救急隊員rescue worker; emergency rescue team member; ambulance attendant; paramedic
- —急流下りriver rafting
- —緩急記号tempo indication; tempo marking; (a) tempo
- —轍鮒の急imminent danger; impending hardship
- —急性腹症acute abdomen (sudden, severe abdominal pain)
- —緊急車両emergency vehicle
- —緊急停止emergency stop; emergency shutdown; scram (nuclear reactor)
- —緊急配備emergency deployment (police, etc.); emergency posting