Chinese symbol for “swiftly”
倏地
shū de
swiftly; suddenly
The closest CC-CEDICT match for swiftly is 倏地 (shū de), defined as: swiftly; suddenly.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “swiftly”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 立马 (立馬) | lì mǎ | at once; immediately |
| 飘然 (飄然) | piāo rán | to float in the air; swiftly |
| 秒秒钟 (秒秒鐘) | miǎo miǎo zhōng | in a matter of seconds; swiftly |
| 譹 | háo | to shout; to roar |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 倏地.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 倏忽 | shū hū | (literary) suddenly |
| 倏然 | shū rán | (literary) suddenly |
| 地区 (地區) | dì qū | region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system) |
| 地方 | dì fāng | region; regional (away from the central administration) |
| 当地 (當地) | dāng dì | local |
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil |
See also: Japanese symbol for “swiftly”.
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.