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趋

qū

hasten, approach

Phonosemantic compound. 走 represents the meaning and 刍 represents the sound. Simplified form of 趨.

Components
走 meaning component

走  Meaning component

zǒu

  

walk

刍 sound component

刍  Sound component

chú

  

mow, cut grass

Evolution

趋 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
趋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
趋 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
趋 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
趋 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

趋 (趨) 

qū

hasten, hurry; be attracted to; to hasten; to hurry; to walk fast; to approach; to tend towards; to converge

Most common words with 趋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

趋势

trend

趋

to hasten

趋向

direction

趋于

to tend towards

日趋

gradually

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 2.7871% of movies

2864th most common character in movies

1486th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

趨

Unicode

U+8D8B


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