快 — pleasant, cheerful, comfortable

かい快 pleasant

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+5FEB Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1074 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1664 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

pleasant
cheerful
comfortable

word

かい kai On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

快(かい) kai pleasant 快(かい) 適(てき) kaiteki comfortable 不(ふ) 快(かい) fukai unpleasant 快(かい) 感(かん) kaikan pleasant feeling 快(かい) 楽(らく) kairaku pleasure 明(めい) 快(かい) meikai clear 快(かい) 晴(せい) kaisei clear weather 軽(けい) 快(かい) keikai light

こころよ kokoroyo Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

快(こころよ) い kokoroyoi pleasant

Appears in idioms

単純明快四字熟語

simple, genuine, bright, pleasant

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

こころ心 heart #61

忄 heart (left form)

夬 decisive

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 忄 (heart radical) gives the meaning. 夬 (kai, decisive) provides the sound. Pleasant and cheerful.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#61 心 heart