Urge in Chinese
to urge · HSK 5
催
妈妈一直催我早点睡觉。 Mom keeps urging me to go to bed early.
Other ways to say urge
How do you say urge in Chinese?
Urge in Chinese is 催 (cuī). You can also say 劝 (quàn), 促使 (cù shǐ), 冲动 (chōng dòng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
Our own dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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