It's almost six.
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快要
kuài yào
HSK 3.0 · 2
kuài yào · faai3 jiu3 (Jyutping)
- nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth)
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Character breakdown
快
- Meaning
- rapid, quick, speedy, fast; soon
- Radical
- 忄
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- ⿰忄夬
- Cangjie
- PDK
- Four-corner
- 9503.0
要
- Meaning
- necessary, essential; necessity
- Radical
- 覀
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- ⿱覀女
- Cangjie
- MWV
- Four-corner
- 1040.4
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Example sentences
It's almost six o'clock.
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