快 hanja, meaning rapid, read 쾌 (kwae)

Reading

쾌kwae

rapid, quick, speedy, fast; soon

쾌할 쾌kwaehal kwae

Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 쾌할 (kwaehal) is the Korean for rapid, and 쾌 (kwae) is the reading. Say 쾌할 쾌 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.

Strokes
7
Radical
⼼ 61
Beyond radical
4
Mandarin
kuài
Japanese on
kai
Japanese kun
kokoroyoi

Vocabulary

Words that use 快

Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.

明快명쾌myeongkwae

lucidity, clearness

Character by character bright + rapid

Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.