快要 (kuài yào) means “nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth)”. It is an HSK 2 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Practice each character:
电影快要开始了。
Diànyǐng kuàiyào kāishǐ le.
The movie is about to start.
Updated: 2026-07-18