verb #24,017

Meanings

  1. 1 to tend towards
  2. 2 to hasten

Examples

HSK 4
Wǎngshàng gòuwù yǐjīng chéngwéi yī dà qūshì.
Online shopping has become a major trend.
HSK 4
Jīngjì zhèngzài zhújiàn qūxiàng wěndìng.
The economy is gradually tending toward stability.

Tips

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

Components

radical
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 in the motion family with (to rise), (to chase), (to surpass). Here the running sense fits the meaning of hastening toward something.
phonetic
chú
fodder; to gather grass
Right 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 (chick) and (wrinkle), both unrelated in meaning.

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