Pinyin: jí

urgent; anxious

Example sentence

别急,慢慢说。

Bié jí, mànmàn shuō.

Don't rush, speak slowly.

What 急 means

(jí) is an Chinese word meaning “urgent; anxious”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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