Skip to content

趕

gǎn

pursue, follow; expel, drive away

Strokes
14
Radical
走
HSK
—
Tone
3

Simplified form: 赶

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 赶, the simplified form of 趕. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 赶快回家。

    Gǎn kuài huí jiā

    Go home quickly.

    Shadow

  • 您要赶快些。

    Nín yào gǎn kuài xiē

    You must hurry up.

    Shadow

  • 赶紧去做！

    Gǎn jǐn qù zuò

    Just do it!

    Shadow

  • 他们没赶上火车。

    Tā men méi gǎn shàng huǒ chē

    They missed the train.

    Shadow

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 赶

  • 赶紧gǎn jǐn 3–3 → 2–3hurriedly; without delay
  • 赶gǎn 3to 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)
  • 赶快gǎn kuài 3–4 quickly; at once
  • 赶到gǎn dào 3–4 to hurry (to some place)
  • 赶上gǎn shàng 3–4 to keep up with; to catch up with; to overtake; to chance upon; in time for
  • 赶不上gǎn bù shàng 3–4–4can't keep up with; can't catch up with; cannot overtake
  • 赶忙gǎn máng 3–2 to hurry; to hasten; to make haste
  • 追赶zhuī gǎn 1–3 to pursue; to chase after; to accelerate; to catch up with; to overtake
  • 赶往gǎn wǎng 3–3 → 2–3to hurry to (somewhere)
  • 赶赴gǎn fù 3–4 to hurry; to rush