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adverb #59,553

Meanings

  1. 1 urgently
  2. 2 anxiously
  3. 3 earnestly

Examples

Zhège wèntí jí dài jiějué.
This problem urgently needs to be solved.
Gōngsī jíxū yì lún xīn de róngzī.
The company urgently needs a new round of funding.

Tips

usage
Read jí, is a literary adverb meaning "urgently", almost always in or 亟需. A separate reading qì means "repeatedly".

Components

ideograph
urgent; pressing
originally pictured a person pressed between an upper and a lower line, conveying being driven to an extreme, hence "urgent". The modern form has fused into a single shape that no longer separates cleanly. Indexed under Kangxi radical (èr, "two") by tradition.

Filed under radical (èr, #7) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

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