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赶快

gǎn kuài

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 趕快

赶快 (gǎn kuài) means "quickly; at once". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 赶快 means

1. quickly; at once

The characters in 赶快

• 赶gǎnto overtake; to catch up with; to hurry; to rush; to try to catch (the bus etc)
• 快kuàirapid; quick; speed

Example sentences

• 赶快!
  Hurry up.
• 赶快回家。
  Go home quickly.
• 您要赶快些。
  You must hurry up.
• 我赶快跑走了。
  Wǒ gǎnkuài pǎo zǒu le.
  I ran away in a hurry.
• 他还是赶快闭嘴的好。
  Tā háishi gǎnkuài bìzuǐ de hǎo.
  The sooner he shuts up, the better.
• 喂，赶快把那些球传回来。
  Hey, get those balls back quickly.

Where 赶快 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Haste, Urgency & Surprise (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gǎn kuài correctly.
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