Chinese symbol for “anxiously”
亟
jí
(literary) urgently; anxiously; earnestly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for anxiously is 亟 (jí), defined as: (literary) urgently; anxiously; earnestly.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 亟.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亟需 | jí xū | to urgently need; urgent need |
| 亟待 | jí dài | to need urgently; to need doing without delay |
See also: Japanese symbol for “anxiously”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.