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急剧

jí jù

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 急劇

急剧 (jí jù) means "rapid; sudden". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 急剧 means

1. rapid; sudden

The characters in 急剧

• 急jíurgent; pressing; rapid
• 剧jùtheatrical work (play, opera, TV series etc); dramatic (change, increase etc); acute

Example sentences

• 世界人口急剧增长。
  Shìjiè rénkǒu jíjù zēngzhǎng.
  World population has rapidly increased.
• 生活支出急剧上涨。
  Shēnghuó zhīchū jíjù shàngzhǎng.
  Living costs have increased rapidly.
• 销售率正在急剧下滑。
  Xiāoshòu lǜ zhèngzài jíjù xiàhuá.
  The sales are slipping.

Sounds the same

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

• 集聚to assemble; to gather
• 级距range of values; category defined by a range of values (tier, bracket, stratum etc)
• 急遽rapid; sudden

Where 急剧 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · jí (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jí jù correctly.
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