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:
,
sort of like a primordial captcha.
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