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

10 strokes (also 9)
Radical:
walk 辵 (辶, ⻌, ⻍)
Parts:
Variants:
quick, fast
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
576 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 速 【ソク】 gear, speed (e.g. 4-speed transmission)
  • 速度 【ソクド】 speed, velocity, pace, rate, velocity
  • 失速 【シッソク】 stall, downturn, slowdown, slump, weakening, decline
  • 快速 【カイソク】 high speed, rapidity, rapid-service train (not as fast as express), rapid train

Kun reading compounds

  • 早い 【はやい】 fast, quick, rapid, swift, speedy, brisk, prompt, early, soon, earlier than usual, premature, too soon, too early, easy, simple, quick, fast, as soon as ..., the moment ..., the instant ...
  • 早める 【はやめる】 to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours), to advance, to hasten (e.g. one's death), to expedite, to precipitate, to quicken (e.g. one's step), to speed up, to accelerate
  • 速やか 【すみやか】 quick, speedy, prompt, rapid, swift

Readings

Japanese names:
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
su4
Korean:
sog

Spanish

  • rápido
  • veloz
  • darse prisa
  • velocidad

Portuguese

  • rápido
  • apressar

French

  • vite
  • rapide
453 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
352 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
534 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
659 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4700 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
848 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
958 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1237 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
502 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
511 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
383 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
693 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3851 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1978 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2674 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1685 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
38897P Morohashi
3105 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6060 New Nelson (John Haig)
1669 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1799 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
360 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1564 2001 Kanji
2q7.4 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-7 SKIP code
3530.9 Four corner code
1-34-14 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
901f Unicode hex code