赶
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to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc); to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away; to avail oneself of (an opportunity); until; by (a certain time)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 走 +3
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 赶
- Common rank
- #1,669
- Unicode
- U+8D76
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 赶
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 流星赶月 | lit. a meteor catching up with the moon; swift action (idiom) | |
| 赶不上 | can't keep up with; can't catch up with; cannot overtake | |
| 赶明儿 | (coll.) some day; one of these days | |
| 赶时间 | to be in a hurry | |
| 赶鸭子上架 | lit. to drive a duck onto a perch (idiom); fig. to push sb to do sth way beyond their abil… | |
| 赶英超美 | to catch up with England and surpass the USA (economic goal) | |
| 吃屎都赶不上热乎的 | (lit.) if you were eating warm shit, it'd be stone cold by the time you finished it (sayin… | |
| 赶前不赶后 | (saying) better to act early than rush later | |
| 迎头赶上 | to try hard to catch up | |
| 赶尽杀绝 | to kill to the last one (idiom); to exterminate; to eradicate; ruthless | |
| 赶不及 | not enough time (to do sth); too late (to do sth) | |
| 赶海 | (dialect) to gather seafood at the beach while the tide is out; to comb the beach for shel… | |
| 赶上 | to keep up with; to catch up with; to overtake; to chance upon; in time for | |
| 赶出 | to drive away | |
| 赶车 | to drive a horse-drawn cart; to hasten to catch a train or bus | |
| 赶工 | to work against the clock; to hurry with work to get it done in time | |
| 赶得及 | to have enough time (to do sth); to be able to make it (in time) | |
| 赶路 | to hasten on with one's journey; to hurry on | |
| 赶浪头 | to follow the trend | |
| 赶来 | to rush over |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 干 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 干 sound part | arid, dry; to oppose; to offend; to invade | |
| 杆 | cane, pole, stick | |
| 汗 | perspiration, sweat | |
| 奸 | crafty, dishonest, selfish; evil, villainous; adultery | |
| 刊 | publication, periodical; to publish, to print | |
| 肝 | liver | |
| 竿 | bamboo pole; penis | |
| 轩 | pavilion; carriage; balcony | |
| 鼾 | to snore loudly | |
| 矸 | cliff; rock | |
| 邗 | an ancient place in the state of Wu | |
| 旰 | sunset, dusk; evening | |
| 犴 | wild dog; jail, lock-up | |
| 豻 | prison, jail; a wild dog | |
| 酐 | anhydride |