(kuài) - fast, quick; soon; sharp in Mandarin
kuàiTraditional: 快
Translation
fast, quick; soon; sharp
Word origin
快 means fast or quick, and also pleased. It is a phono-semantic compound with the 忄 'heart' radical and the phonetic 夬 (guài); the original sense relates to a quick, glad heart.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 忄 (heart radical) + 夬 (guài, phonetic)
Stroke order
快
Examples
，！
Hurry up, we are going to be late!
。
He runs very fast.
，。
We are almost there, wait a moment.
。
This train is much faster than the car.
。
Time really flies.
Where this fits
Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 快.
Used in
Stories
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