Chinese Character Wiki
趨

qū

hasten, approach

Phonosemantic compound. 走 represents the meaning and 芻 represents the sound.

Components
走 meaning component

走  Meaning component

zǒu

  

walk

芻 sound component

芻  Sound component

chú

  

mow, cut grass

Evolution

趨 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
趨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
趨 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
趨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

趋 (趨) 

qū

hasten, hurry; be attracted to; to hasten; to hurry; to walk fast; to approach; to tend towards; to converge

Most common words with 趨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

趋势

trend

趋

to hasten

趋向

direction

趋于

to tend towards

日趋

gradually

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ʰro

tsrhju

qū

hasten


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.7871% of movies

2864th most common character in movies

1486th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

趋

Unicode

U+8DA8

Shuowen

“趨，走也。从走，芻聲。”


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