快 (kuài): meaning and stroke order
快 (kuài) means rapid, quick, speed, rate, soon, almost, to make haste, clever, sharp (of knives or wits).
快
- Simplified
- 快
- Traditional
- 快 (same form)
- Pinyin
- kuài
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Stroke order of 快
快
- kuài rapid; quick
- 7 strokes
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Meaning of 快
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kuài
- rapid
- quick
- speed
- rate
- soon
- almost
- to make haste
- clever
- sharp (of knives or wits)
- forthright
- plainspoken
- gratified
- pleased
- pleasant
Radical and structure
- 快
- Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 7 strokes · 忄 on the left, 夬 on the right
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Words with 快
- 快乐 kuài lè happy; joyful
- 凉快 liáng kuai pleasantly cool (weather etc); to cool oneself; to cool off
- 快递 kuài dì express delivery
- 赶快 gǎn kuài quickly; at once
- 快递员 kuài dì yuán package delivery person; courier
- 尽快 jǐn kuài as quickly as possible; as soon as possible
快 in our stories
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河里的水很少，菜也快死了。
hé lǐ de shuǐ hěn shǎo cài yě kuài sǐ le
There was very little water in the river, and the vegetables were nearly dead.
From the story The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
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四个多小时很快就过去了。
sì gè duō xiǎoshí hěn kuài jiù guòqu le
The four-plus hours fly by.
From the story The train to Xi'an HSK 3
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他很快就做好了，海报简单又清楚。
tā hěn kuài jiù zuò hǎo le hǎibào jiǎndān yòu qīngchu
He finishes quickly; the poster is simple and clear.
From the story Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3
Stories using 快
- The little dragon and the rain HSK 2
- The train to Xi'an HSK 3
- Drawing legs on a snake HSK 3
- Flowers in the book return HSK 5
- Old Du on the corner HSK 6
- The banquet that never ended HSK 6
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).