焦る
あせる · aseru · JLPT N1 · verb-godan
to be impatient
🔥 焦 = fire (火) under a bird: haste burns you up, so you feel scorched with impatience
The fire component at the base of 焦 means scorching. 焦る is the feeling of being burnt up by haste, so it means to be in a hurry or impatient.
焦 — bird 隹 over fire 灬
焦 is an associative compound showing a short-tailed bird (隹) above fire (灬), depicting roasting a bird until scorched. The original sense was 'burnt' or 'charred,' which extended to 'scorched, dried out,' and metaphorically to 'anxious, worried' (as in 焦急).