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  1. 1.repeatedly
  2. 2.frequently
  1. 1.(literary) urgently; anxiously; earnestly

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.urgently
  2. 2.urgent; pressing
  3. 3.repeatedly; frequently

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): semantic 人 (“person”) + semantic 二 (“two edges”) — original form of 極 (OC *ɡɯɡ, “extrema”). The components 口 and 攴 (later simplified to 又) were added later. Unrelated to both 丂 and 了. Later phonetically borrowed to represent 亟 (OC *kʰɯɡs, *kɯɡ, “urgent”).

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Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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