趁 (chèn)
to take advantage of (time/opportunity)/while
How 趁 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 走 — run
- Traditional
- 趁
- Simplified
- 趁 (unchanged)
Common words using 趁
- 趁早 chènzǎo
- as soon as possible; at the first opportunity; the sooner the better
- 趁機 chènjī
- to seize an opportunity; to take advantage of situation
- 趁火打劫 chènhuǒdǎjié
- to loot a burning house; to profit from sb's misfortune (idiom)
趁 in a sentence
菜要趁熱吃才好吃。
Cài yào chèn rè chī cái hǎochī.
“Food tastes best when eaten while it's hot.”
How common is 趁?
趁 is the 2,105th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97.5% of all running text.
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