快要

Character by character

• 快kuài7 strokesHSK 1rapid, quick, speedy, fast; soon
• 要yào9 strokesHSK 1necessary, essential; necessity

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 快要. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 要yàoHSK 1

  to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 是); (bound form) important

• 需要xū yàoHSK 3

  to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs

• 快kuàiHSK 1

  rapid; quick; speed; rate; soon; almost; to make haste; clever; sharp (of knives or wits); forthright; plainspoken; gratified; pleased; pleasant

• 不要bù yàoHSK 2

  don't!; must not

• 重要zhòng yàoHSK 1

  important; significant; major

• 要求yāo qiúHSK 2

  to request; to require; requirement; to stake a claim; to ask; to demand

• 只要zhǐ yàoHSK 2

  if only; so long as

• 快乐kuài lèHSK 2

  happy; joyful

• 主要zhǔ yàoHSK 2

  main; principal; major; primary

• 就要jiù yàoHSK 2

  will; shall; to be going to

• 必要bì yàoHSK 3

  necessary; essential; indispensable; required

• 要是yào shiHSK 3

  (coll.) if

• 尽快jǐn kuàiHSK 4

  as quickly as possible; as soon as possible

• 快速kuài sùHSK 3

  fast; high-speed; rapid

• 要么yào meHSK 6

  or; either one or the other

• 赶快gǎn kuàiHSK 3

  quickly; at once

• 愉快yú kuàiHSK 6

  cheerful; cheerily; delightful; pleasant; pleasantly; pleasing; happy; delighted

• 加快jiā kuàiHSK 3

  to accelerate; to speed up

• 要不yào bùHSK 7

  otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...)

• 将要jiāng yàoHSK 5

  will; shall; to be going to

• 首要shǒu yàoHSK 7

  the most important; of chief importance

• 快递kuài dìHSK 4

  express delivery

• 要不然yào bù ránHSK 6

  otherwise; or else; or

• 要命yào mìngHSK 7

  to cause sb's death; extremely; terribly; (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance