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赶

gǎn

pursue, catch up

Phonosemantic compound. 走 represents the meaning and 干 represents the sound. Simplified form of 趕.

Components
走 meaning component

走  Meaning component

zǒu

  

walk

干 sound component

干  Sound component

gān, gàn

  

interfere

Evolution

赶 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
赶 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

赶 (趕) 

gǎn

pursue, follow; expel, drive away; 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

Most common words with 赶
Freq.
Word
Meaning

赶

to overtake

赶紧

hurriedly

赶快

at once

赶到

to hurry (to some place)

赶上

to keep up with

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 63.8956% of movies

672nd most common character in movies

908th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

趕

Unicode

U+8D76

Shuowen

“赶，舉尾走也。从走，干聲。”


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