HSK 5 · Emotions

痛快 tòngkuài “delighted” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 痛快 means

  1. delighted
  2. to one’s heart’s content
  3. straightforward

How to say 痛快

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale痛tòng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale快kuài4th tone, falling

痛快 in a sentence

  1. 昨天我们玩得特别痛快！

    Zuótiān wǒmen wán de tèbié tòngkuài!

    We had a fantastic time yesterday!

    Sentence #793593 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 痛快 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 痛 (tòng) with each of its parts in a different colour
痛tòngache
  • 疒sickness · nèMeaning part
  • 甬path · tǒngSound part

疒 hints at the meaning (sickness); 甬 (tǒng) hints at the sound. Compare it with tòng.

The character 快 (kuài) with each of its parts in a different colour
快kuàirapid
  • 忄heart form of 心 · xīn
  • 夬decisive · guài

Memory aidHeart 忄 with 夬 (guài) for the sound: happy, and fast.

How to write 痛快

痛 12 strokes · 快 7 strokes

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痛快 (tòngkuài) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 痛快 (tòngkuài). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 痛快

Words with 痛

痛tòng · painful痛苦tòngkǔ · pain

Words with 快

快kuài · fast快乐kuàilè · happy快要kuàiyào · about to凉快liángkuai · nice and cold愉快yúkuài · cheerful赶快gǎnkuài · quickly尽快jǐnkuài · as soon as possible爽快shuǎngkuài · frank快活kuàihuo · happy

More words: Emotions & Attitudes

热爱rè'ài · to love ardently热心rèxīn · enthusiastic疼爱téng'ài · to love dearly痛苦tòngkǔ · pain微笑wēixiào · smile无奈wúnài · to have no alternative无所谓wúsuǒwèi · to not matter消极xiāojí · negative

FAQs

痛快 (tòngkuài) means “delighted” or “to one’s heart’s content”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it tòngkuài: tòng with a 4th tone, then kuài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 痛快 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tongkuai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 痛快 from the suggestions. Typing tongkuai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
痛快 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.