紧緊 in English
- tight / strict / close at hand / near / urgent / tense / hard up / short of money / to tighten
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 緊, the traditional character: 紧 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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万一有紧急情况，联系我的代理人。
In case of an emergency, get in touch with my agent.
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中小企业要勒紧裤带才能存活。
Small businesses will have to tighten their belts to survive.
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他们变得很紧张。
They became very nervous.
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他被很多人围着，自然变得有点紧张。
With so many people around he naturally became a bit nervous.
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他要来这件事对我而言无关紧要。
It is of no consequence to me that he is coming.
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你不必紧张。
You don't need to be nervous.
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友谊紧紧联系着我们。
We are bound to each other by a close friendship.
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咬紧牙关坚持到底！
Grit your teeth and bear it!