to spur the horse to full speed (idiom); to go as fast as possible
trad. 快馬加鞭
Also written 快馬加鞭【kuài mǎ jiā biān】
Characters in this word
4快
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0
rapid, quick, speed, rate, soon, almost, to make haste, clever, sharp (of knives or wits), forthright, plainspoken, gratified, pleased, pleasant
- Pinyin
- kuài
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 102 of 2500
马
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surname Ma, abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]
- Pinyin
- Mǎ
- Traditional
- 馬
- Strokes
- 3
- Frequency
- 1030 of 2500
加
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Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4]), surname Jia
- Pinyin
- Jiā
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1517 of 2500
鞭
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whip or lash, to flog, to whip, conductor's baton, segmented iron weapon (old), penis (of animal, served as food)
- Pinyin
- biān
- Strokes
- 18
- Frequency
- 18042 of 2500