to overtake / to catch up with / to hurry / to rush / to try to catch (the bus etc) / to drive (cattle etc) forward / to drive (sb) away / to avail oneself of (an opportunity) / until

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) is taking part in a nordic walking (走) marathon. The route leads through the anthill (an3) and inside there are lots of dried fruits (干) in the bar for the walkers. As Guy Fawkes passes through, he hurriedly (赶) prongs a lot of dried fruit onto his nordic walking poles (走) before the bar owner rushes (赶) him out.
to overtake; to catch up with / to hurry; to rush / to try to catch (the bus etc) / to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away / to avail oneself of (an opportunity) / until; by (a certain time)

趕 character breakdown

drought

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a marmot, 旱獭.

Hamlet (h) used the drought (旱) to dry fruits (干) under the sun (日) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), but the marmot (旱) secretly stole and ate all the dried fruits.
to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]) / to change (shape, form, meaning)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Nordic walking pole. Zorro (z) is fighting Neanderthal Man (bottom of 龰) in the outhouse's living room (ou3). Neanderthal Man uses his pennant (top of 龰), and Zorro uses a Nordic walking pole (走). Zorro overcomes Neanderthal Man by using a dirty trick: he throws some dirt (土) at Neanderthal Mans face, who is blinded and hurts his foot with his pennant (the pennant pierces his foot: 龰). Just at this moment Zorro uses the opportunity to sedate Neanderthal Man and rams a syringe (龰) into his shoulder.

Characters with 趕 as component

趕 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 趕

at once / immediately
to keep up with / to catch up with / to overtake / to chance upon / in time for
to hurry (to some place)
to hurry to (somewhere)
to kill to the last one (idiom) / to exterminate / to eradicate / ruthless
not enough time (to do sth) / too late (to do sth)
there is still time (to do sth) / to be able to do sth in time / to be able to make it
to keep up with the latest fashion
to hurry / to hasten / to make haste
as soon as possible / at the first opportunity / the sooner the better / before it's too late
friendly one-upmanship / to try to emulate
to work against the clock / to hurry with work to get it done in time
it's better to hurry at the start than to rush later (idiom)
can't keep up with / can't catch up with / cannot overtake
(coll.) some day / one of these days
lit. a meteor catching up with the moon / swift action (idiom)
lit. if you were eating warm shit, it'd be stone cold by the time you finished it (idiom) / fig. (of a person) too slow / can't keep up

Sentences with 趕

趕 currently does not appear in any sentence.