漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement
速: quick, fast
JLPT N310 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
⻌ carries the meaning · 束 gives the sound
10 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
ソクsoku · on'yomi · in compounds
- 速度そくどspeed, velocity, rate
- 速達そくたつexpress, special delivery
- 速報そくほうnews flash
- 速球そっきゅうfastball
- 早速さっそくimmediately, promptly
- 快速かいそくhigh speed, express
- 時速じそくspeed (mph)
- 迅速なじんそくなquick, fast, rapid, swift, prompt
- 急速なきゅうそくなrapid
はやいhayai · kun'yomi · on its own
- 速いはやいquick, fast, swift
はやめるhayameru · kun'yomi
- 速めるはやめるhasten, quicken, accelerate
すみやかsumiyaka · kun'yomi
- 速やかなすみやかなspeedy
Also read はや-, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)辵 (meaning) + 束 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 速 (rev. 92201937), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“This swooping radical is the winding road you walk upon! It curves under the rest of the kanji like a path being carved through a landscape.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
束
Also built on bundle (束)
速 takes the 束 family's reading, ソク (soku).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side速 quick · ⻌
vs勅 imperial order · 力In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · sù
Same form: 速 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 速 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 速 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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