HSK 6 · Adjectives

仓促 cāngcù “hurried” in Chinese

Traditional 倉促

What 仓促 means

  1. hurried
  2. hasty
  3. all of a sudden
  4. hurriedly

How to say 仓促

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale仓cāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale促cù4th tone, falling

仓促 in a sentence

  1. 这个故事仓促地结了尾。

    Zhè ge gùshi cāngcù de jié le wěi.

    The story was wrapped up in a hurry.

    Sentence #1878074 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 仓促 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 仓 (cāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
仓cāngbarn
  • 人person · rén
  • 㔾seal · jié
The character 促 (cù) with each of its parts in a different colour
促cùof short duration; hasty; rapid
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 足foot · zú

How to write 仓促

仓 4 strokes · 促 9 strokes

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仓促 (cāngcù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 仓促 (cāngcù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 仓促

Words with 仓

仓库cāngkù · warehouse

Words with 促

促进cùjìn · to promote (an idea or cause)促使cùshǐ · to induce督促dūcù · to supervise and urge短促duǎncù · brief

More words: Adjectives

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FAQs

仓促 (cāngcù) means “hurried” or “hasty”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cāngcù: cāng with a 1st tone, then cù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 仓促 is written 倉促. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cangcu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 仓促 from the suggestions. Typing cangcu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
仓促 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.