追
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to chase; to pursue; to look into; to investigate; to reminisce; to recall; to court (one's beloved); to binge-watch (a TV drama); retroactively; posthumously
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 辵 +6
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 追
- Common rank
- #809
- Unicode
- U+8FFD
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 追 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 meaning “walk” + 㠯 sound
Components 辶 丿 㠯
How to remember it
chase · Heisig RSH #1040
maestro + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 追
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 追星族 | passionate fan (of a celebrity); stan | |
| 追思会 | memorial service; memorial meeting | |
| 追上 | to overtake | |
| 追打 | to chase and beat | |
| 追新 | to seek out the new (e.g. the latest tech products) | |
| 追加剂 | (Tw) (vaccine) booster dose; booster shot | |
| 光追 | ray tracing (abbr. for 光線追蹤|光线追踪[guang1 xian4 zhui1 zong1]) | |
| 追光 | (theater) spotlight | |
| 追寻现代中国 | "The Search for Modern China" (1990) by Jonathan D. Spence 史景遷|史景迁[Shi3 Jing3 qian1] | |
| 追加 | to add something extra; an additional increment; addendum; to append; an additional posthu… | |
| 追龙 | (slang) to inhale the vapor from heroin heated on a piece of aluminum foil; to chase the d… | |
| 追光灯 | (theater) spotlight; followspot | |
| 追星 | to idolize a celebrity | |
| 追回 | to recover (sth lost or stolen); to get back | |
| 追比 | to flog; to cane (as punishment) | |
| 追尾 | to tailgate; to hit the car in front as a result of tailgating | |
| 追根求源 | to track sth to its roots | |
| 追根问底 | lit. to examine roots and inquire at the base (idiom); to get to the bottom of sth | |
| 追本穷源 | see 追本溯源[zhui1 ben3 su4 yuan2] | |
| 追客 | avid fan who anxiously awaits new content |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 㠯 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 㠯 sound part | — | according to, for, with; to use |
| 耜 | plow, spade |