追 (zhuī): meaning and stroke order
追 (zhuī) means to chase, to pursue, to look into, to investigate, to reminisce, to recall.
追
- Simplified
- 追
- Traditional
- 追 (same form)
- Pinyin
- zhuī · duī
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Stroke order of 追
追
- duī to sculpt; to carve
- zhuī to chase; to pursue
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 追
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zhuī
- 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
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duī
- to sculpt
- to carve
- musical instrument (old)
Radical and structure
- 追
- Radical 辵 (Kangxi radical 162) · 10 strokes · built from 辶 and 𠂤
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 追
- 追杀 zhuī shā to chase to kill
- 追求 zhuī qiú to pursue (a goal etc) stubbornly; to seek after
追 in our stories
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秦将白起故意假装失败，一路后退，赵括以为自己赢了，带着大军追了上去。
Qín jiàng Bái Qǐ gùyì jiǎzhuāng shībài yílù hòutuì Zhào Kuò yǐwéi zìjǐ yíng le dài zhe dàjūn zhuī le shàngqu
The Qin general Bai Qi deliberately feigned defeat and fell back all the way; Zhao Kuo thought he had won and pursued with his whole army.
From the story Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8
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夸父看着族人一个个倒下，心中悲愤交加。他想：太阳每天从东方升起，在西方落下，如果能追上它，让它听人的话，该有多好！
Kuāfù kànzhe zúrén yígègè dǎo xià xīnzhōng bēifènjiāojiā tā xiǎng tàiyáng měitiān cóng dōngfāng shēngqǐ zài xīfāng luò xià rúguǒ néng zhuī shàng tā ràng tā tīng rén de huà gāi yǒu duō hǎo
Watching his people collapse one after another, Kuafu was filled with grief and anger. He thought: the sun rises in the east every day and sets in the west; if he could catch it and make it obey people, how wonderful that would be!
From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Stories using 追
- Fighting battles on paper HSK 7–9 · Level 8
- Kuafu chases the sun 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).