hurry, emergency, sudden, steep
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
ルーカスは急いで着替え、朝ご飯もほとんど食べずに家を出ました。
Rūkasu wa isoide kigae, asagohan mo hotondo tabezu ni ie o demashita.
Lucas got dressed in a rush and left home barely having breakfast.
携帯のアラーム、聞いた?あれは緊急地震速報よ。
Keitai no araamu, kiita? Are wa kinkyuu jishin sokuhou yo.
Did you hear that alarm on your phone? That's the emergency alert.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0