趕
gǎn HSK3

pursue, catch up

赶 (趕) gǎn
rush verb
to hurry or rush to complete a task or reach a destination

我们在赶时间，请走快一点。

wǒ​men zài gǎn shí​jiān, qǐng zǒu kuài yī​diǎn.

We're in a hurry; please walk a bit faster.

drive away verb
to drive animals forward or to expel someone from a place

他挥动手中的鞭子，把羊群赶向草场。

tā huī​dòng shǒu zhōng de biān​zi, bǎ yáng​qún gǎn xiàng cǎo​chǎng.

He waved his whip and drove the sheep toward the pasture.

overtake verb
to catch up with or try to catch a person or a vehicle

只要我们加快速度，就一定能赶过他们。

zhǐ​yào wǒ​men jiā​kuài sù​dù, jiù yī​dìng néng gǎn guò tā​men.

As long as we speed up, we will definitely overtake them.

avail verb
to take advantage of an opportunity or a specific situation

我们最好不要赶在周末去办理业务。

wǒ​men zuì hǎo bù yào gǎn zài zhōu​mò qù bàn​lǐ yè​wù.

We had better not try to handle business over the weekend.

by adverb
until or by a certain point in time

这件衣服赶明儿就能做好了。

zhè jiàn yī​fu gǎn míng​r jiù néng zuò hǎo le.

This garment will be ready by tomorrow.

attend a market verb
to visit a market or fair held at regular intervals.

农民们每逢周日都会去镇上赶集。

nóng​mín men měi féng Zhōu​rì dōu huì qù zhèn shàng gǎn jí.

Farmers go to the market in town every Sunday.

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
Simplified
赶
Strokes
14
Unicode
U+8D95

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