きゅう
Meanings
Adjective (な)
1. sudden; abrupt; unexpected
2. urgent; pressing
3. steep; sharp; precipitous
4. rapid; swift; fast
Noun
5. emergency; crisis; danger
6. urgency; hurrying; haste
7. (in gagaku or noh) end of a song
Kanji used
hurry
Pitch accent
きゅ
Top 400
Used in vocabulary (71 in total)
rapid (e.g. progress)
sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical
vital part (of the body); tender spot; key point; essential point; male crotch (as a target in fighting)
Examples (50 in total)
Don't brake suddenly.
I've suddenly started to gain weight.
The weather changed suddenly.
The temperature has suddenly dropped.
Our train stopped suddenly.
The truck made a sharp turn to the right.
He changed his attitude suddenly.
I've suddenly lost weight.
He felt a sudden pain.
Suddenly, it got dark outside.
I suddenly became very sad.
Suddenly my heart hurts.
Suddenly, he changed the subject.
The kids suddenly became quiet.
The car turned abruptly.
My computer sometimes shuts down suddenly.
The sky suddenly became overcast.
The young man burst into laughter.
The crashed plane burst into flames.
Tom's mother suddenly fell sick.
Her face suddenly went pale.
One of the boys suddenly ran away.
The fog was thickening quickly.
He suddenly took a defiant attitude toward the police officer.
The little girl burst into tears.
He put his foot on the brake suddenly.
This road is full of sharp turns.
Robert broke off in the middle of his phone call.
He suddenly started writing a letter to his mother.
The river suddenly narrows at this point.
I can't understand why he left so suddenly.
Don't burst into the room without knocking.
The staircase leading to the rooftop is narrow, steep, and dark.
I was shocked by the dog that sprang out of the darkness.
Why is Mary being nice to me all of a sudden?
The road makes a sharp right turn there.
He felt a sudden urge to write a novel.
Do you often become dizzy if you get up from bed quickly?
All of a sudden, large drops of rain began falling from the dark sky.
From this point the climb suddenly became steep.
Sudden decrease in appetite is sometimes a sign of illness.
Seeing me, they suddenly stopped talking.
I found the banana on a steep mountain road.
New office buildings seem to be sprouting up all over the city.
He was making a speech, but he abruptly stopped speaking when he heard a strange noise.
We were sitting peacefully at dinner, when all of a sudden the lights went out.
We heard the explosion and saw the house burst into flames.
When Nicole heard that her favorite singer had died, she burst into tears.
All of a sudden, three dogs appeared in front of us.
There is a shuttle bus that goes to the Ginza Tokyu Hotel.