必

Translingual

Etymology

Etymology unclear – an ideogram or pictogram of some sort. Unrelated to 心, as bronze script makes clear, but in current form very similar.

Han character

必 (radical 61 心+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心竹 (PH), four-corner 3300₀, composition ⿻心丿)

1. surely, most certainly
2. must

Derived characters

• 宓 祕 秘

See also

• 心

References

• KangXi: page 375, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10299
• Dae Jaweon: page 701, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2267, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5FC5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

必 (jyutping bit1, Yale bit1)

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Japanese

Kanji

必 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ひつ (hitsu)
• Kun: かならず (必ず, kanarazu)
• Nanori: さだ (sada), さだむ (sadamu)

Compounds

必ず (kanarazu): necessarily, certainly 必ずしも (kanarazushimo): not always 必携 (hikkei): handbook, manual 必死 (hisshi): frantic, desperate 必需 (hitsuju): necessary 必需品 (hitsujuhin): necessities

必殺 (hissatsu): definite kill 必修 (hisshū): required (subject) 必勝 (hisshō): certain victory 必須 (hissu): indispensable, required 必須条件 (hissu jōken): essential condition 必然 (hitsuzen): inevitable, necessary 必然的 (hitsuzenteki): inevitable, necessary

必着 (hitchaku): must arrive 必読 (hitsudoku): should be read by all 必要 (hitsuyō): necessity, need 必要性 (hitsuyōsei): necessity 必読書 (hitsudokusho): required reading 不必要 (fuhitsuyō): unnecessary 必死になって (hisshi ni natte): desperately 必見 (hikken): a must-see

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Korean

Hanja

必 (hangeul 필, revised pil, McCune-Reischauer p'il, Yale phil)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

必 (pinyin bì (bi4), Wade-Giles pi⁴)

1. 耶和华神对蛇说，你既作了这事，就必受咒诅，比一切的牲畜野兽更甚。你必用肚子行走，终身吃土。

   Yēhéhuá shén duì shé shuō , nǐ jì zuò le zhè shì , jiù bì shòu zhòuzǔ , bǐ yīqiè de shēngchù yĕshòu gèng shén . nǐ bì yòng dùzi xíng zǒu , zhōng shēn chī tǔ .

   And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

Compounds

• 必須

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Middle Chinese

Han character

必 (*bit)

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Vietnamese

Han character

必 (tất, ắt)