快

Translingual

Etymology

Component: 夬

Han character

快 (radical 61 心+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 心木大 (PDK), four-corner 9503₀, composition ⿰忄夬)

References

• KangXi: page 377, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10369
• Dae Jaweon: page 705, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2278, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5FEB

Descendants

• 筷

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		快

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuài (kuai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faai³
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): khoai
• Min Nan (POJ): khoài / khuìⁿ
• Wu (WT Romanisation): khua (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: kuài
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: k'uai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuay
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: faai³
    • Yale: faai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faai³
    • IPA ^(key): /fɑːi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khoai
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /kʰu̯ai̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khoài / khuìⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: khoài / khuìnn
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰuai¹¹/, /kʰuĩ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰuai²¹/, /kʰuĩ²¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: khua (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰɯᴀ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (快, reconstructed)
Character (快), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 溪 (29) Final: 夬 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 苦夬切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kʰɣuaiH/	/kʰwaiH/	/kʰuaiH/	/kʰʷɯaiH/	/kʰwaɨjsH/	/kʰwæiH/	/kʰuaiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (快, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
快								kuài								‹ khwæjH ›								/*[k]ʷʰˤret-s/								cheerful
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
快					4407					夬					祭					1					快					/*kʰʷraːds/

Definitions

快

1. rapid, quick, speedy, fast
2. quickly
3. pleased, happy

Antonyms

• 慢

Compounds

Derived terms

• 快事

• 快人快語／快人快语

• 快件

• 快信

• 快刀斬亂麻／快刀斩乱麻

• 快報／快报

• 快心

• 快意

• 快感

• 快慢

• 快慰

• 快手

• 快手兒／快手儿

• 快捷

• 快暢／快畅

• 快書／快书

• 快板兒／快板儿

• 快槍／快枪

• 快樂／快乐

• 快步流星

• 快活

• 快當／快当

• 快相

• 快艇

• 快衝膠卷／快冲胶卷

• 快要

• 快訊／快讯

• 快貨／快货

• 快車／快车

• 快速

• 快遞／快递

• 快適／快适

• 快門／快门

• 快食面

• 快餐

• 快馬加鞭／快马加鞭

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Japanese

Kanji

快

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: かい (kai)
• Kun: こころよい (kokoroyoi)

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Korean

Hanja

快 (kwae) (hangeul 쾌, McCune-Reischauer k'wae, Yale khway)

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Vietnamese

Han character

快 (khoái, khuấy, khoáy, sướng)

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