Chinese symbol for “swift”
飞速
fēi sù
Traditional: 飛速
swift; rapidly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for swift is 飞速 (fēi sù), defined as: swift; rapidly.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “swift”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 麻利 | má li | swift; agile |
| 雨燕 | yǔ yàn | swift; Apodidae (the swift family) |
| 疾 | jí | (bound form) disease; ailment; (bound form) swift |
| 寁 | zǎn | swift |
| 浏 (瀏) | liú | clear; deep (of water) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 飞速.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 飞机 (飛機) | fēi jī | airplane; measure word: 架 (jià) |
| 飞行 (飛行) | fēi xíng | to fly; flight |
| 起飞 (起飛) | qǐ fēi | (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off; (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly |
| 飞行员 (飛行員) | fēi xíng yuán | pilot; aviator |
| 飞弹 (飛彈) | fēi dàn | (Tw) missile; stray bullet |
| 飞船 (飛船) | fēi chuán | spaceship; spacecraft |
| 速度 | sù dù | speed; rate; velocity; (music) tempo |
| 快速 | kuài sù | fast; high-speed; rapid |
See also: Japanese symbol for “swift”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.