HSK 5 · Verbs

抓紧 zhuājǐn “to keep a firm grip on” in Chinese

Traditional 抓緊

What 抓紧 means

  1. to keep a firm grip on
  2. to pay close attention to
  3. to lose no time in (doing sth)

How to say 抓紧

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale抓zhuā1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale紧jǐn3rd tone, dipping

抓紧 in a sentence

  1. 请抓紧时间。

    Qǐng zhuājǐn shíjiān.

    Please make good use of the time.

    Sentence #5092158 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 如果你抓紧，你还能赶上火车。

    Rúguǒ nǐ zhuājǐn, nǐ hái néng gǎnshàng huǒchē.

    If you hurry, you can still catch the train.

    Sentence #1323972 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 抓紧 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 抓 (zhuā) with each of its parts in a different colour
抓zhuāto grab
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 爪claw · zhǎo
The character 紧 (jǐn) drawn as one shape
紧jǐntight

紧 is a single shape of 10 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 抓紧

抓 7 strokes · 紧 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 抓紧

Words with 抓

抓zhuā · to grab

Words with 紧

紧张jǐnzhāng · nervous紧急jǐnjí · urgent赶紧gǎnjǐn · hurriedly不要紧búyàojǐn · unimportant紧迫jǐnpò · urgent

More words: Common Verbs

抓zhuā · to grab撞zhuàng · to knock against装修zhuāngxiū · to renovate主持zhǔchí · to host (a programme or event)专心zhuānxīn · to concentrate转变zhuǎnbiàn · to change装zhuāng · to pretend装饰zhuāngshì · to decorate

FAQs

抓紧 (zhuājǐn) means “to keep a firm grip on” or “to pay close attention to”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zhuājǐn: zhuā with a 1st tone, then jǐn with a 3rd 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, 抓紧 is written 抓緊. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhuajin with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 抓紧 from the suggestions. Typing zhuajin into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
抓紧 is an HSK 5 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.