赶 (gǎn): meaning and stroke order
赶 (gǎn) means to overtake; to catch up with, to hurry; to rush, to try to catch (the bus etc).
赶
- Simplified
- 赶
- Traditional
- 趕
- Pinyin
- gǎn
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Stroke order of 赶
赶
- gǎn to overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush
- 10 strokes
- Traditional form: 趕
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Meaning of 赶
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gǎn
Traditional 趕
- 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)
Radical and structure
- 赶
- Radical 走 (Kangxi radical 156) · 10 strokes · built from 走 and 干
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 赶
- 赶快 gǎn kuài quickly; at once
- 赶走 gǎn zǒu to drive out; to turn back
赶 in our stories
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唐僧越听越生气,写下一封贬书,把悟空赶回了花果山。
Táng Sēng yuè tīng yuè shēngqì xiě xià yì fēng biǎnshū bǎ Wùkōng gǎn huí le Huāguǒ Shān
The more Tang Seng listened, the angrier he became. He wrote a letter of dismissal and drove Wukong back to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit.
From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6
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哪怕他骂我、赶我走,也比把我当成陌生人好,她想。
nǎpà tā mà wǒ gǎn wǒ zǒu yě bǐ bǎ wǒ dàngchéng mòshēngrén hǎo tā xiǎng
Even if he cursed me or drove me away, it would be better than treating me as a stranger, she thought.
From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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等梁山伯终于明白过来,“九妹”就是英台本人,赶到祝家去提亲时,已经晚了。
děng Liáng Shānbó zhōngyú míngbai guòlai jiǔmèi jiùshì Yīngtái běnrén gǎn dào zhù jiā qù tíqīn shí yǐjīng wǎn le
By the time Liang Shanbo finally realised that the "ninth sister" was Yingtai herself and hurried to the Zhu family to propose, it was too late.
From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Stories using 赶
- Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6
- The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Lord Ye loves dragons HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- The flies that solved the case HSK 7–9 · Level 9
- The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).