chèn

take advantage of

Components
走 meaning component

  Meaning component

zǒu

  

walk

walk

㐱 sound component

  Sound component

zhěn

  

thick hair

Evolution

趁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
趁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

chèn

take advantage of, avail oneself; to avail oneself of; to take advantage of

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chèn

old variant of [chèn]

Most common words with 趁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to avail oneself of

趁机

to seize an opportunity

趁早

as soon as possible

趁热打铁

to strike while the iron is hot

趁势

to seize an opportunity

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.1027% of movies

1949th most common character in movies

2109th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+8D81

Shuowen

“趁,也。从走,聲。讀若塵。”


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