Taxonomy of meanings for 捷:　　

Additional information about 捷

說文解字: 【捷】，獵也，軍獲得也。从手、疌聲。《春秋傳》曰：齊人來獻戎捷。 【疾葉切】

Criteria
• SKILLFUL
  

  1. The standard word for skilfulness is qiǎo 巧 (ant. zhuó 拙 "inept").

  2. Jié 捷 (ant. huǎn 緩 "slow and inefficient") emphasises a lightness of touch in the exercise of a high degree of skill.

  3. Mǐn 敏 (ant. yú 愚 "stupid and incompetent") refers to a very high degree of adeptness at a task.

  4. Jì 技 (ant. zhuó 拙 "incompetent") refers to a basic technical skill of no special distinction, and the word is almost always nominal.

• QUICK
  

  1. The most current general word for anything that moves at high speed is sù 速 (ant. chí 遲 "so slowly that one becomes late").

  2. Jí 疾 (ant. xú 徐 "slowly") typically refers to urgent speedy action of limited duration.

  3. Jí 亟 (ant huǎn 緩 "too slowly") refers to maximum speed possible under prevailing circumstances.

  4. Jíé 捷 adds to the notion of maximum speed the nuance of deftness and general skill.

  5. Piāo 飄 refers specifically to the speed of wind.

  6. Xùn 迅 emphasises high speed and abruptness and eruptive violence, often in natural processes.

  7. Bù rì 不日 without delay, in a short time, quickly.

  NB: Kuài 快 came to mean "quickly" soon after Han times.

• STUPID
  

  1. The dominant word is yú 愚 (ant. zhì 智 "clever; wise"), and the word refers to moral as well as intellectual obtuseness as well as practical ineptitude.

  2. Zhuó 拙 (ant. jié 捷 "nimble") refers to practical ineptitude.

  3. Chī 癡 (ant. yǐ4ng 穎 "very clever") refers to moronic clinical intellectual ineptitude.

  4. Lǔ 魯 and dùn 鈍 (ant. huì 慧 "clever") refer to boorish and rustic bluntness of sensibility.

  5. Bì 蔽 and měng 蒙 (all ant. cōng 聰 "clever"), refer to an appearance of stupidity due to limited access to information, a state of stupidity that is typically construed as remediable.

  6. Mèi 昧 and àn 暗 (ant. míng 明 "clear-minded") refer primarily to benightedness of mind and lack of an enlightened attitude, particularly on the part of a ruler or a person who should know better.

  7. Wán 頑 and lòu 陋 (both ant.* bó 博 "broadly civilised") add the nuance of stubbornness to that of stupidity as such.

  NB: Bèn 笨, āi 呆, shǎ3 傻, and chūn 蠢 are post-Han words for stupidity and silliness.

• WEAK
  

  1. The current general word for weakness of any physical or abstract kind, and of anything including states, persons, and animals is ruò 弱 (ant. qiáng 強 "strong").

  2. Léi 羸 (ant. jiàn 健 "strong and healthy") typically refers to physical weakness in humans.

  3. Bào 薄 (ant. zhuàng 壯 "strong and vigorous") can refer to a low or weak intensity of something.

  4. Cuì 脆 / 膬 (ant. jiān 堅 "strong and hard") refers to physical weakness as a result of brittleness and a propensity to break easily.

  5. Chí 弛 (ant. jiān 堅 "strong and hard") refers to weakness as a result of abstract or physical slackening.

  6. Shuāi 衰 (ant. shèng 盛 "strong and flourishing") refers to the process of weakening that attends any kind of decline.

  7. Hào 耗 (ant. kāng 康 "increasingly vigorous and healthy") refers to the process of weakening that results from using up available resources.

  8. Huǎ3n 緩 (ant. jié 捷 "nimble and vigorous in one's effort") is somewhat marginal in the group but can refer to habitual weakness of effort through slowness and lack of urgent and decisive action.

Word relations
• Assoc: (SKILLFUL)敏/SKILLFUL Mǐn 敏 (ant. yú 愚 "stupid and incompetent") refers to a very high degree of adeptness at a task. 1 Attribution