U+8D76 "赶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
赶
U+8D76 "赶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to catch up" or "to hurry" and is pronounced as "gǎn" in Mandarin. It combines the radical for "run" (走, zǒu) with a phonetic component, reflecting its association with rapid movement or pursuit. Commonly used in everyday vocabulary, it appears in words such as "赶快" (gǎnkuài, meaning quickly or at once) and "赶上" (gǎnshàng, meaning to catch up or to overtake). This character is employed across various contexts from expressing urgency in time sensitive situations to describing the act of pursuing a bus or a deadline, making it a functional and frequently used character in written Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8D76 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 赶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 赶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xB5 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8D76 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008D76 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8d76 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D3E3 |
| kCCCII | 233750 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3327 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3327 |
| kCangjie | GOMJ |
| kCantonese | gon2 |
| kCihaiT | 1284.202 |
| kCowles | 1765 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1683.150 |
| kDefinition | pursue, follow; expel, drive away |
| kEACC | 275A50 |
| kFanqie | 巨言 其月 |
| kFennIndex | 238.11 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4280.4 |
| kGB0 | 2447 |
| kHangul | 간:1N |
| kHanYu | 53475.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | gǎn(681) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53475.050:qián,gǎn |
| kIBMJapan | FBB0 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1683.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53475.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1215.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-384F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D3E3 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-025177 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-79C2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-573E |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3327 |
| kJapanese | ゴン ガチ ゲン ケツ ケン カン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1788 |
| kKangXi | 1215.120 |
| kKarlgren | 296 |
| kKorean | KAN |
| kLau | 959 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6385 |
| kMandarin | gǎn |
| kMatthews | 3222 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1234 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ025177 |
| kMorohashi | 37045 |
| kPhonetic | 653 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+8629+51.3.7 C+8629+156.7.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 156.3 |
| kSBGY | 116.09 478.45 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8D95<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "赶" U+8D76 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 673.02 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6385 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 106.160:gǎn |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "赶" U+8D76 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "趕" U+8D95 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 266:313 |
| kXHC1983 | 0356.070:gǎn |