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急に
きゅうに
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suddenly
Kyū ni is 急 (kyū, “sudden”) plus に (ni, oblique particle).
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Written with 急
In a sentence
彼は急に居直った。
He changed his attitude suddenly.
車は急に左折した。
The car cut to the left.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From 急(きゅう) (kyū, “sudden”) + に (ni, oblique particle).”
Source: Wiktionary: 急に (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.