IDENTITY
快kuàifast; happy; soon
HSK 1Top 430
CORE MEANING
fast; happy; soon
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.fastHSK2
- 2.happyHSK1
- 3.soonHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 忄heart radical (xīn)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰忄夬
- heart radical
- gives the sound kuài
USAGE
Common words
快乐kuàilèhappy
凉快liángkuaicool (weather)
快餐kuàicānfast food
Graded examples
祝你生日快乐！Zhù nǐ shēngrì kuàilè!HSK1
Happy birthday to you!
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A heart (忄) that leaps ahead (夬) — fast and happy.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #430
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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