赶 gǎn▶ bắt kịp

Stroke order

赶 is written in 10 strokes.

• 赶

Senses

1. to overtake; to catch up with
2. to hurry; to rush
3. to try to catch (the bus etc)
4. to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away
5. to avail oneself of (an opportunity)
6. until; by (a certain time)

Example sentences

• 我要赶火车。Wǒ yào gǎn huǒchē.I have to catch the train.
• 他赶上了最后一班车。Tā gǎn shàng le zuìhòu yì bān chē.He caught the last bus.

Related words

• 赶快nhanh lên, vội vàng
• 赶紧Nhanh chóng

赶 is pronounced gǎn and means “bắt kịp”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 赶 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.