追 means “chase, follow”

おう · ou

Also: drive away, pursue

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

おう

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ツイ

JLPT N3 · Taught in grade 3 · 9 strokes

The story

Picture someone racing along the road (辶) after a runaway pack mule, bags stacked high on its back. 追う is to chase, 追いかける to run after, and at an izakaya 追加 is one more round added to the order.

Used in 追加 (tsuika, addition), 追いかける (oikakeru, to chase after), and 追い越す (oikosu, to overtake)

More from Coming & Going

• 落 fall
• 退 retreat
• 路 road
• 込 crowded
• 途 way
• 留 stay
• 散 scatter
• 浮 float
• 戻 go back
• 越 cross over
• 到 arrive
• 連 take along

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.