赶紧

Character by character

• 赶gǎn10 strokesHSK 3 traditional 趕pursue, follow; expel, drive away
• 紧jǐn10 strokesHSK 3 traditional 緊tense, tight, taut; firm, secure

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 赶紧去做！

  Gǎn jǐn qù zuò

  Just do it!

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 赶紧. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 紧张jǐn zhāngHSK 3

  nervous; keyed up; intense; tense; strained; in short supply; scarce

• 紧jǐnHSK 3

  tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten

• 紧急jǐn jíHSK 3

  urgent; emergency

• 赶gǎnHSK 3

  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)

• 赶快gǎn kuàiHSK 3

  quickly; at once

• 赶到gǎn dàoHSK 3

  to hurry (to some place)

• 抓紧zhuā jǐnHSK 4

  to keep a firm grip on; to pay close attention to; to lose no time in (doing sth)

• 紧紧jǐn jǐnHSK 5

  closely; tightly

• 赶上gǎn shàngHSK 6

  to keep up with; to catch up with; to overtake; to chance upon; in time for

• 紧密jǐn mìHSK 4

  inseparably close

• 不要紧bù yào jǐnHSK 4

  unimportant; not serious; it doesn't matter; never mind; it looks all right, but

• 要紧yào jǐnHSK 7

  important; urgent

• 追赶zhuī gǎnHSK 7

  to pursue; to chase after; to accelerate; to catch up with; to overtake

• 赶往gǎn wǎngHSK 7

  to hurry to (somewhere)

• 紧迫jǐn pòHSK 7

  pressing; urgent

• 紧接着jǐn jiē zheHSK 7

  immediately afterwards; shortly after that

• 加紧jiā jǐnHSK 7

  to intensify; to speed up; to step up

• 无关紧要wú guān jǐn yàoHSK 7

  indifferent; insignificant

• 紧凑jǐn còuHSK 7

  compact; terse; tight (schedule)

• 赶不上gǎn bù shàngHSK 6

  can't keep up with; can't catch up with; cannot overtake

• 赶赴gǎn fùHSK 7

  to hurry; to rush

• 紧缩jǐn suōHSK 7

  (economics) to reduce; to curtail; to cut back; to tighten; austerity; tightening; crunch

• 紧缺jǐn quēHSK 7

  in short supply; scarce

• 赶忙gǎn mángHSK 6

  to hurry; to hasten; to make haste