速い

はやい · hayai · JLPT N5 · i-adj

fast

🐇 速 = road-walk radical 辶 + bundle 束: moving down the road in a tight bundle

Sound hook: hayai starts like hi-YAH, the shout before a quick strike. Shares its reading with 早い (early); 速い is the one for speed, and the 辶 movement radical marks it as about motion.

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