督促 dūcù▶ giám sát và thúc giục

Stroke order

督促 is written in 22 strokes across 2 characters.

• 督 — 13 strokes
• 促 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. to supervise and urge completion of a task
2. to urge on

Related words

• 仓促Vội vã
• 监督giám sát
• 短促rất ngắn gọn
• 促使thúc giục; thôi thúc
• 促进Thúc đẩy, thăng chức

督促 is pronounced dūcù and means “giám sát và thúc giục”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 督促 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.