趋

趨
qū
verb #24,017

Meanings

  1. 1 to tend towards
  2. 2 to hasten

Examples

HSK 5
Wǎngshàng gòuwù yǐjīng chéngwéi yī dà qūshì.
Online shopping has become a major trend.
HSK 5
Jīngjì zhèngzài zhújiàn qūxiàng wěndìng.
The economy is gradually tending toward stability.

Tips

memory
走 (to walk) plus 刍 - the image is of walking hastily in a direction, which gives the sense of tending or hurrying toward something.

Components

radical
走 zǒu
to run; to walk
Walk/run radical wrapping the lower-left - the indexing radical. Pictures a person striding with one foot forward, originally meaning 'to run'. Sets 趋 in the motion family with 起 (to rise), 赶 (to chase), 越 (to surpass). Here the running sense fits the meaning of hastening toward something.
phonetic
刍 chú
fodder; to gather grass
Right 刍 carries the sound, with the regular chú to qū shift in the palatalization series. The fodder sense plays no part; it is purely a sound peg here. The same phonetic shows up in 雏 (chick) and 皱 (wrinkle), both unrelated in meaning.

Stroke Order

趋 qū