Chinese Character Wiki
趕

gǎn

pursue, catch up

Phonosemantic compound. 走 represents the meaning and 旱 represents the sound.

Components
走 meaning component

走  Meaning component

zǒu

  

walk

旱 sound component

旱  Sound component

hàn

  

drought

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 趕
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

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 63.8956% of movies

672nd most common character in movies

908th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

赶

Unicode

U+8D95


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