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焦急

jiāo jí

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

焦急 (jiāo jí) means "anxiety; anxious". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 焦急 means

1. anxiety
2. anxious

The characters in 焦急

• 焦jiāoburnt; scorched; charred
• 急jíurgent; pressing; rapid

Example sentences

• 我焦急地在等着去聚会。
  Wǒ jiāojí de zài děng zhe qù jùhuì.
  I'm looking forward to the party.
• 就算你多焦急，也不能帮上什么忙。
  Jiùsuàn nǐ duō jiāojí, yě bù néng bāng shàng shénme máng.
  No matter how much you hurry your effort is just a drop in the bucket.
• 我为你的殿，心里焦急，如同火烧。
  Wǒ wèi nǐ de diàn, xīnli jiāojí, rútóng huǒshāo.
  Zeal for your house will consume me.
• 就算你多焦急，也不能帮上甚么忙。
  No matter how much you hurry your effort is just a drop in the bucket.
• 语言有时会变得很复杂，有时也会让人焦急万分，想说的总是说不出口，不过总有一天会传达给对方。
  Yǔyán yǒushí huì biànde hěn fùzá, yǒushí yě huì ràng rén jiāojí wànfēn, xiǎng shuō de zǒngshì shuōbuchū kǒu, bùguò zǒngyǒu yī tiān huì chuándá gěi duìfāng.
  Language can sometimes be very complicated and worry us greatly, especially when we cannot express what we want to say, but there will definitely be a day when we can communicate well.

Sounds the same

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

• 交集(of diverse emotions) to occur simultaneously; to intermingle; common ground…

Where 焦急 is taught

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

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiāo jí correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.