速 — Chinese character
速
sù
prompt, quick, speedy
- Pinyin
- sù
- Radical
- 162 ⾡ (Walk)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 辶 束
- Formation
- pictophonetic — walk; meaning component 辶; sound component 束
- Japanese
- 速 as a kanji
Common words with 速
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 速度 | sù dù | speed; rate; velocity; (music) tempo |
| 快速 | kuài sù | fast; high-speed; rapid |
| 迅速 | xùn sù | rapid; speedy |
| 高速 | gāo sù | high speed; expressway (abbr. for 高速公路 (gāo sù gōng lù)) |
| 加速 | jiā sù | to accelerate; to speed up; to expedite |
| 高速公路 | gāo sù gōng lù | expressway; highway; freeway |
| 时速 (時速) | shí sù | speed per hour |
| 急速 | jí sù | hurried; at a great speed |
| 速率 | sù lǜ | speed; rate |
| 增速 | zēng sù | to speed up; to accelerate; (economics) growth rate |
| 风速 (風速) | fēng sù | wind speed |
| 减速 (減速) | jiǎn sù | to reduce speed; to slow down |
English words written with 速
速 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Art of War 4 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 9 · Zhuangzi 2
- Analects 13.17
- Analects 14.47
- Art of War 2.5
- Art of War 6.10
- Art of War 8.12
- Art of War 11.19
- Hexagram 5
- Mencius 1B.11
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.