Meaning & readings
quick, fast
On’yomi ソク
Kun’yomi はや.い、はや-、はや.める、すみ.やか
Nanori わ
Origin
This character combines a motion-related component on the left (the "movement" radical, which appears in many words about going or changing) with the component 束 on the right, which acts as a sound hint to indicate roughly how the character is pronounced. The left component establishes that this character deals with motion or action, while the right component tells you it should sound something like "soku." Together they create a character meaning "fast" or "quick" — the idea of swift movement.
Components
- 束
- ⻌
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 10
- Kangxi radical
- 162
- Formation type
- Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint)
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #576 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+0901F