快
Meaning
- rapid
- quick
- speed
Example sentence
越快越好。
The sooner, the better.
The character 快
快 has 忄, the heart radical, because quickness here began as gladness — 快乐 keeps that older sense. Elsewhere it is speed: 快点儿, 赶快, 快餐 fast food, and 快要…了, about to happen.
Words containing 快
- 快餐 kuài cān fast food
- 快点儿 kuài diǎn r erhua variant of 快点
- 快乐 kuài lè happy; joyful
- 快要 kuài yào nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth)
- 凉快 liáng kuai pleasantly cool (weather etc)
- 赶快 gǎn kuài quickly; at once
- 加快 jiā kuài to accelerate; to speed up; to hasten
- 快速 kuài sù fast; high-speed; rapid
- 尽快 jǐn kuài as quickly as possible; as soon as possible
- 快递 kuài dì express delivery
- 痛快 tòng kuài delighted