Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
heart 心 (忄, ⺗)
Parts:
cheerful, pleasant, agreeable, comfortable
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 5
JLPT level N2
1074 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 快 【カイ】 pleasure, delight, enjoyment
  • 快感 【カイカン】 pleasant feeling, pleasant sensation, pleasure
  • 豪快 【ゴウカイ】 hearty, tremendous, magnificent, glorious, splendid, heroic, stirring
  • 明快 【メイカイ】 clear, clear-cut, lucid, unequivocal, explicit

Kun reading compounds

  • 快い 【こころよい】 pleasant, agreeable, comfortable, refreshing

Readings

Japanese names:
よし
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kuai4
Korean:
kwae

Spanish

  • agradable
  • bueno
  • curarse
  • rápido
  • placentero

Portuguese

  • confortável
  • agradável
  • alegre

French

  • agréable
  • gai
  • plaisant
  • confortable
566 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
661 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
631 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
882 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1654 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
827 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
531 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
372 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1409 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1498 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
656 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
808 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
289 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
182 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
218 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1657 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
10369 Morohashi
245 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1802 New Nelson (John Haig)
1642 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1771 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
664 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1163 2001 Kanji
4k4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-4 SKIP code
1-1-6 SKIP code
9503.0 Four corner code
1-18-87 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5feb Unicode hex code

9 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
how, what, alas, question mark, exclamation mark
Kun:
かな
On:
サイ
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 快哉 【カイサイ】 joy, exultation
  • 悦哉 【エッサイ】 musket (male Japanese sparrowhawk)

Kun reading compounds

  • 哉 【かな】 how!, what!, alas!
  • 悲しいかな 【かなしいかな】 sad to say, how sad, alas
  • 果たせるかな 【はたせるかな】 as expected
  • 候哉 【そうろうや】 I wonder if ...

Readings

Japanese names:
か、 すけ、 とし、 ちか、 はじめ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zai1
Korean:
jae

Spanish

  • ¿cómo?
  • ¿qué?
  • exclamación

Portuguese

French

777 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1940 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1006 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2037 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
4084 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2071 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2807 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
3596 Morohashi
3294 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
779 New Nelson (John Haig)
2704 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2741 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4n5.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-6-3 SKIP code
4-9-4 SKIP code
4365.0 Four corner code
1-26-40 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
54c9 Unicode hex code