kuài

minced meat or fish

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

meat

Sound component
huì, kuài to gather

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkwajHC.[k]ˤ[o][p]-smince (v.)
Zhengzhangkoːbs
Unicodeguɑ̀i

說文解字

細切肉也。从肉會聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

kuài minced meat or fish Simplified

Components

Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

meat

Sound component
huì, kuài to gather

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode