Chinese
趕
/kän²¹⁴/
to overtake; to catch up with
- Phono-semantic compound 形聲
- HSK 3
- TOCFL 5
- radical 走
- 14 strokes
- 赶
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Origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kaːnʔ): semantic 走 + phonetic 旱 (OC *ɡaːnʔ).
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Lineage
- meaningChinese走 “to go; to walk; to go on foot”
- soundChinese旱 “drought; dry spell; aridness”
Sources
- HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
- 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: 趕