匆
cōng
#1,620 most
frequent character
hurried, hasty
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
匆 came from 怱, a variant of 悤, and was later shortened to 匆. It first meant intelligent, now written 聪. The sense 'hurried, rushed' was borrowed only for the sound, and from that came 'urgent'.
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