First opened Saturday, July 1, 2023

緊急

きんきゅう

flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

urgent, pressing, emergency

JLPT N1Commonnoun (common) (futsuumeishi)nouns which may take the genitive case particle 'no'adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)漢語 · Sino-Japanese

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Written with 緊急

In a sentence

緊急(きんきゅう)連絡(れんらく)先(さき)は何(なん)番(ばん)ですか。
What is the emergency telephone number?
Tatoeba #179931, translation #18790
緊急(きんきゅう)の場合(ばあい)は警察(けいさつ)を呼(よ)びなさい。
In case of an emergency, call the police.
Tatoeba #179938, translation #18797

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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.

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