快 — Chinese character
快
kuài
speedy, rapid, quick; soon
- Pinyin
- kuài
- Radical
- 61 ⼼ (Heart)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 忄 夬
- Formation
- ideographic — A decisive 夬 will 忄; 夬 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 快 as a kanji
Common words with 快
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 快乐 (快樂) | kuài lè | happy; joyful |
| 快速 | kuài sù | fast; high-speed; rapid |
| 尽快 (儘快) | jǐn kuài | as quickly as possible; as soon as possible |
| 尽快 (盡快) | jìn kuài | see 尽快 (jǐn kuài) |
| 加快 | jiā kuài | to accelerate; to speed up; to hasten |
| 赶快 (趕快) | gǎn kuài | quickly; at once |
| 愉快 | yú kuài | cheerful; happy; pleasant; delighted |
| 快点 (快點) | kuài diǎn | to do sth more quickly; Hurry up! |
| 快要 | kuài yào | nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth) |
| 快递 (快遞) | kuài dì | express delivery |
| 生日快乐 (生日快樂) | shēng rì kuài lè | Happy birthday |
| 不快 | bù kuài | unhappy; in low spirits |
English words written with 快
快 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 2 · Mencius 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.