Zi Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Person (rén) Kuai Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 119, Entry 11 Tang Rhymes (Tang yun), Collected Rhymes (Ji yun), Rhyme Assembly (Yun hui), and Correct Rhymes (Zheng yun) state the pronunciation is kuai. A broker or middleman who facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers. In ancient times, the character meaning to meet was sometimes used as a loan for this term. According to the commentary on the Biographies of Money-makers (Huo zhi zhuan) in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), a zang is a middleman in the trade of horses, and the term hui carries the same meaning as kuai.