音読み: キュウ
訓読み: いそぐ・いそぎ
画数: 9
部首: こころ（心）
Meaning
Hurry / Sudden / Emergency
- Basic forms
- 急ぐ — to hurry; to rush / base form
- 急ぎます — (I) hurry / masu form
- 急いだ — hurried / ta form
- 急いで — hurry and …; hurriedly / te form
- 急がない — don’t hurry / negative
- 急げば — if (you) hurry / conditional
- 急げ — hurry! / imperative
- Other common forms
- 急ぎりたい — want to hurry / 〜たい form
- 急げる — can hurry / potential
- 急げなかった — couldn’t hurry / past potential
- More
- 急ごう — let’s hurry / volitional
- 急がなかった — didn’t hurry / past negative
- 急いでいる — is hurrying; in a rush / progressive
急ぐ（いそぐ） is a godan verb ending in ぐ. The te-form (and ta-form) changes ぐ to いで (so 急いで / 急いだ).
- 急ぐ — to hurry
- 急な — sudden, urgent
- 急行 — express train
- 至急 — urgent, immediately
- 急用 — urgent business
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- 急速 — rapid, speedy
- 緊急 — emergency, urgent
- 急病 — sudden illness
- 急所 — vital point, key point
- 急転 — sudden change, quick turn
The 心 (こころ) radical symbolizes the heart or mind. Combined with phonetic cues, 急 conveys emotional urgency or a rush of action — fitting for meanings like “hurry,” “sudden,” or “emergency.”