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亟待

jí dài

2-character word

What 亟待 means

1. to need urgently; to need doing without delay

The characters in 亟待

• 亟jí(literary) urgently; anxiously; earnestly
• 待dàito wait; to treat; to deal with

Sounds the same

Read jí dài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 急待variant of 亟待

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