jí
urgent
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 及 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
jí
quick, quickly; urgent, pressing; urgent; pressing; rapid; hurried; worried; to make (sb) anxious
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k](r)əp | kip | jí | urgent |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 56.6875% of movies
776th most common character in movies
657th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6025 |
Shuowen | “，褊也。从心，及聲。” |
Sources
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