0015 急

急

This character means ‘urgent, sudden, emergency, steep,’ (KYŪ in Japanese, jí in Chinese), or ‘to be in a hurry,’ isogu in Japanese.

The lower part represents a heart

心

while the upper parts show a hand seizing a man

人, who seems to be lost in the hand.

Small man, big Godzilla hand.

The archaic version looks scary:

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sort of like a primordial captcha.