Illustration: In a Japanese family restaurant, a child has just tipped a cup off the table. Water is still pouring from its rim when an attentive server arrives with an absorbent cloth already pressed to the spill. The parent’s hand remains suspended in the startled gesture of noticing the accident.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

速すみやか

sumiyaka

prompt, swift

Example sentences

  1. 速すみやかに部屋へやへ入はいりなさい。

    Come into the room at once.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれらは合意ごういにより、速すみやかに行動こうどうした。

    They acted immediately by agreement.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 現在貸出中げんざいかしだしちゅうの下記図書かきとしょの返却期限へんきゃくきげんが過すぎております。速すみやかにご返却へんきゃくくださいますようお願ねがいいたします。

    The following books on loan have passed their return date. We kindly ask that they be returned as soon as possible.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 速

  • 速quick; fastOnソクKunはやい・はや-・すみやか

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