赶
gǎn HSK3

pursue, catch up

赶 趕 gǎn
to hurry verb
to rush; to hasten in order to finish a task or avoid being late

现在没必要这么赶。

xiàn​zài méi bì​yào zhè​me gǎn.

There's no need to hurry now.

to catch up verb
to chase; to pursue; to overtake or catch up with someone or something

其他人会赶上来的。

qí​tā rén huì gǎn shàng lái de.

The others will catch up.

to drive away verb
to expel; to oust; to chase someone or something away

我不能赶她出去。

wǒ bù​néng gǎn tā chū qù.

I can't throw her out.

to catch verb
to try to catch a scheduled vehicle or attend a timed event; to make it in time for something

我要去赶飞机。

wǒ yào qù gǎn fēi​jī.

I have a plane to catch.

他有十五分钟的时间赶火车。

tā yǒu shí​wǔ fēn​zhōng de shí​jiān gǎn huǒ​chē.

He had 15 minutes to catch his train.

to encounter particleverb
to happen to meet; to run into a situation or event; to coincide with
to drive
to drive animals forward; to herd; to drive a carriage
to take advantage of
to avail oneself of; to make use of a specific time or opportunity
until
(colloquial) by a certain time; waiting until a specific moment occurs
surname
a Chinese surname
hurried
(of a schedule, etc.) rushed; pressed for time

Frequency
Character
Written text
908th most common 189.1 per million
Movie subtitles
672nd most common 197.5 per million appears in 64% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
86.2 per million appears in 32% of films
Written text
38.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Traditional
趕
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+8D76

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)