| qū | to hasten/to hurry/walk fast/to approach/to tend towards/to converge |
| 趋 | to hasten to hurry to walk fast |
| 趋之若骛 | go after in a swarm |
| 趋之若鹜 | to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase |
| 趋于 | to tend towards |
| 趋光 | The inclination of some insects or fish to head towards sources of light. |
| 趋光性 | phototropism; phototaxis; phototaxy; photokinesis; optokinesis |
| 趋光性的 | phototactic |
| 趋冷 | a cold tendency a freeze (in relations) |
| 趋冷气候 | cooling a cold spell |
| 趋利避害 | go after profits and advoid disadvantages |
| 趋力 | driving force |
| 趋势 | trend tendency |
| 趋化作用 | chemotaxis (movement of leukocytes under chemical stimulus) |
| 趋化性 | chemiotaxis; chemotaxis |
| 趋吉避凶 | to seek luck and avoid calamity (idiom) |
| 趋同 | to converge |
| 趋同进化 | convergent evolution |
| 趋向 | direction trend to incline |
| 趋向动词 | directional verb |
| 趋向性 | taxis; tropism |