快
kuài HSK1

rapid

快 kuài
happy adjectivenoun
pleased; elated; joyful
soon adverb
happening in a short time; almost; about to

现在都快晚上九点了。

xiàn​zài dōu kuài wǎn​shang jiǔ diǎn le.

It's almost 9:00 at night.

他已经快一年没说话了。

tā yǐ​jing kuài yī nián méi shuō huà le.

He hasn't spoken in almost a year.

fast adjective
rapid; quick; at high speed

他能跑得和我一样快。

tā néng pǎo de hé wǒ yī​yàng kuài.

He can run as fast as I can.

显然，说话比打字快多了。

xiǎn​rán, shuō huà bǐ dǎ zì kuài duō le.

Obviously talking is much faster than typing.

quickly adverb
to hurry up; to make haste; used as a command to do something immediately

快，抓住我的手。

kuài, zhuā zhù wǒ​de shǒu.

Quick, grab my hand.

sharp adjective
(of knives or tools) having a fine edge; keen

这把刀一点也不快。

zhè bǎ dāo yī​diǎn yě bù kuài.

This knife is not at all sharp.

clever
quick-witted; smart; ingenious; having a rapid mental response
straightforward
forthright; plainspoken; direct in speech or action
catcher
(bound form) a title for ancient low-level police officers or catchers of criminals
surname
a Chinese surname
satisfied
to one's heart's content; gratified by having a desire or grievance fulfilled
unrestrained
unfettered; indulging oneself; giving oneself over to

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Antonym

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Frequency
Character
Written text
366th most common 604.2 per million
Movie subtitles
112th most common 1556.3 per million appears in 98% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1595.1 per million appears in 95% of films
Written text
427.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5FEB

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)