kuàiwèi

swallow

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

mouth

會 sound component

  Sound component

huìkuài

  

to gather

Evolution

噲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
噲 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
噲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

kuài

swallow, gulp down; greedy; throat; to swallow

() 

Kuài

surname Kuai

() 

wèi

(interjection) hey

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʰr[o][p]-s

khwaejH

kuài

comfortable (room)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5981st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+5672

Shuowen

“噲,咽也。从口,會聲。讀若快。一曰嚵噲也。”


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