迅疾

xùnjí

adjective #54,754

Meanings

1 rapid
2 swift
3 quick

Characters

fast; (also) illness

Examples

HSK 5

他迅疾地做出了反应。

Tā xùnjí de zuòchū le fǎnyìng.

He reacted swiftly.

HSK 5

病情发展十分迅疾。

Bìngqíng fāzhǎn shífēn xùnjí.

The illness progressed extremely rapidly.

Tips

register

Slightly literary - common in news reports and formal writing. Spoken Mandarin prefers 迅速 or 很快. Both 迅 and 疾 individually mean 'fast'; doubling them intensifies.

Stroke Order

迅 xùn

疾 jí