速 — quick, fast

はやい速 quick

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes sports

U+901F Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #576 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1799 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

quick
fast

word

はや haya 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).

速(はや) い hayai fast 速(はや) haya fast

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

高(こう) 速(そく) kousoku high speed 速(そく) 度(ど) sokudo speed 早(さっ) 速(そく) sassoku immediately 急(きゅう) 速(そく) kyuusoku rapid 時(じ) 速(そく) jisoku speed per hour 加(か) 速(そく) kasoku acceleration 速(そく) 報(ほう) sokuhou breaking news 減(げん) 速(そく) gensoku deceleration

すみ sumi 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).

速(すみ) やか sumiyaka prompt

そっ so 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).

速(そっ) 記(き) sokki shorthand 速(そっ) 攻(こう) sokkou swift attack

Appears in idioms

速戦即決四字熟語

quick, war, instant, decide

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

たば束 bundle

辶 road

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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.

#162 辵 walk