Chinese Character Wiki

遽

jù

suddenly

Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 豦 represents the sound.

Components
辶 meaning component

辶  Meaning component

chuò

  

walk

辶 is a component form of 辵.

豦 sound component

豦  Sound component

jù, qú

  

a wild boar

Evolution

遽 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
遽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
遽 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
遽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

遽  

jù

suddenly, unexpectedly; at once; hurry; fast; suddenly

Most common words with 遽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

遽

hurry

急遽

rapid

遽然

(literary) all of a sudden

惊遽

in a panic

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

蘧

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g](r)a(k)-s

gjoH

jù

post horse or carriage


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3949th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+907D

Shuowen

“遽，傳也。一曰窘也。从辵，豦聲。”


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