捷
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victory; triumph; quick; nimble; prompt
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 手 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 捷
- Common rank
- #1,410
- Unicode
- U+6377
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 捷 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 meaning “hand” + 疌 sound
Components 扌 疌
How to remember it
nimble · Heisig RSH #2211
fingers + 十 ten + rake + trail of footprints
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 捷
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 捷尔任斯克 | Dzerzhinsk, Russian city | |
| 捷克共和国 | Czech Republic | |
| 平型关大捷 | Great Victory at Pingxing Pass, ambush of Japanese troops by Communist forces on September… | |
| 捷达航空货运 | Jett8 Airlines Cargo (based in Singapore) | |
| 出师未捷身先死 | "he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相… | |
| 台北捷运 | Taipei Metro | |
| 捷克人 | Czech person | |
| 捷安特 | Giant Manufacturing, Taiwanese bicycle manufacturer | |
| 捷克语 | Czech (language) | |
| 门捷列夫 | Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table | |
| 保时捷 | Porsche (car company) | |
| 大众捷运 | mass rapid transit MRT | |
| 快捷方式 | (computer) shortcut | |
| 直捷了当 | variant of 直截了當|直截了当[zhi2 jie2 liao3 dang4] | |
| 安捷伦科技 | Agilent Technologies (research and manufacturing company) | |
| 列别捷夫 | Lebedev or Lebedyev (Russian surname) | |
| 首战告捷 | to win the first battle | |
| 捷克斯洛伐克 | Republic of Czechoslovakia (1918-1992) | |
| 便捷化 | to facilitate; to streamline; to make convenient and fast | |
| 别赫捷列夫 | Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857-1927), Russian neurologist and psychiatrist |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 疌 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 疌 sound part | — | nimble, quick |
| 睫 | eyelashes | |
| 婕 | handsome |