CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

轻快

qīngkuài

light and quick

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

light and quick

brisk

spry

lively

effortless

relaxed

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 轻快 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 轻快 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

所谓头脑好的人，就如同步伐轻快的云游者，他可以比别人捷足先登，到达人们尚未去过的地方，但是他可能会忽略掉路旁或岔道上的珍贵物品。suǒ wèi tóu nǎo hǎo de rén， jiù rú tóng bù fá qīng kuài de yún yóu zhě， tā kě yǐ bǐ bié rén jié zú xiān dēng， dào dá rén men shàng wèi qù guò de dì fāng， dàn shì tā kě néng huì hū lüè diào lù páng huò chà dào shàng de zhēn guì wù pǐn。

A person with a sharp mind is like a nimble wanderer who can outpace others and reach places uncharted by the masses, yet they might overlook precious treasures along the way or at crossroads.

老先生腿脚轻快，一点也不像七十岁的人。lǎo xiān shēng tuǐ jiǎo qīng kuài， yì diǎn yě bù xiàng qī shí suì de rén。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 轻快.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 轻快.

Directly before

步伐轻快1
腿脚轻快1

Directly after

轻快的1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 轻快

What does 轻快 mean in Chinese?

轻快 (qīngkuài) means light and quick.

How do you pronounce 轻快?

轻快 is pronounced qīngkuài.

Is 轻快 an HSK word?

轻快 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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