Kanji N1

捷: victory, fast

捷 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning victory, fast, written with 11 strokes. It is read ショウ, ソウ (on) and はやい (kun). It is not a jōyō kanji; you will meet it mostly in names.

捷

Meanings

  • victory
  • fast
Strokes11
JLPT levelN1
School gradeName kanji
FrequencyBeyond #2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ショウ
  • ソウ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • はやい

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY.