Chinese symbol for “hasten”
趋
qū
Traditional: 趨
to hasten; to hurry; to walk fast; to approach
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hasten is 趋 (qū), defined as: to hasten; to hurry; to walk fast; to approach; to tend towards; to converge.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “hasten”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 加快 | jiā kuài | to accelerate; to speed up; to hasten |
| 骋 (騁) | chěng | to hasten; to run |
| 促 | cù | (bound form) of short duration; hasty; rapid; (bound form) to hasten; to hurry; to urge |
| 敦促 | dūn cù | to press; to urge |
| 趱 (趲) | zǎn | to hasten; to urge |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 趋.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 趋势 (趨勢) | qū shì | trend; tendency |
| 日趋 (日趨) | rì qū | (increasing) day by day; (more critical) with every passing day |
| 趋向 (趨向) | qū xiàng | direction; trend; to incline |
| 趋于 (趨於) | qū yú | to tend towards |
| 趋缓 (趨緩) | qū huǎn | to slow down; to ease up |
| 大势所趋 (大勢所趨) | dà shì suǒ qū | (idiom) the prevailing trend; the trend of the times; an inevitable direction |
See also: Japanese symbol for “hasten”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.