快餐
HSK 4 (exam 2025)HSK 2 (2021)
快餐 (kuàicān) · fast food
快餐 (kuàicān) means “fast food”. It is written with 2 characters: 快 (fast) + 餐 (to eat). It is an HSK 4 word in the current exam syllabus (2025).
How 快餐 is built
The characters
快 kuài · fast
What 快 is made of
- 忄xīn — heart
- 八bā — eight
- 丨 — vertical stroke
- 夬guài — decisive
- 大dà — big
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 人rén — person
- 大dà — big
Origin hint: A decisive 夬 will 忄; 夬 also provides the pronunciation (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)
餐 cān · to eat
What 餐 is made of
- 歺è — evil
- ⺊ — structural part
- 丨 — vertical stroke
- 夕xī — evening
- 勹bāo — wrap shape
- 丶 — dot
- ⺊ — structural part
- 又yòu — (once) again
- 食shí — food
- 人rén — person
- 良liáng — good
- 丶 — dot
- 艮gěn — blunt
Origin hint: food (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)
Example sentences
我们中午吃快餐吧。Wǒmen zhōngwǔ chī kuàicān ba.Let's have fast food for lunch.
你常吃快餐吗？Nǐ cháng chī kuàicān ma?Do you often eat fast food?
Questions about 快餐
What does 快餐 mean?
快餐 (kuàicān) means “fast food”.
How do you pronounce 快餐?
快餐 is pronounced kuàicān.
Which HSK level is 快餐?
快餐 is in HSK 4 (exam 2025) and HSK 2 (2021).
Related words
- 快点儿kuài diǎnrhurry up
- 快乐kuàilèhappy
- 快要kuàiyàoto be about to
- 凉快liángkuainice and cool
- 赶快gǎnkuàiquickly
- 加快jiākuàito speed up
- 快速kuàisùfast
- 尽快jǐnkuàias soon as possible
- 快递kuàidìexpress delivery
- 痛快tòngkuàihappy
Learn 快餐 with its group
It is part of HSK 2 (2021) · Group 17: a short group with quick checks and spaced repeats.