要
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Etymology [edit]
Pictogram (象形): a woman (女) with two hands pointing to her midsection.
Original meaning was "waist" (now 腰). The hands gradually shifted upwards; the 覀 in the modern form evolved from the hands and the woman's head.
Han character [edit]
要 (radical 146 西+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一田女 (MWV), four-corner 10404, composition ⿱西女)
Derived characters [edit]
References [edit]
- KangXi: page 1128, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34768
- Dae Jaweon: page 1597, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2805, character 8
- Unihan data for U+8981
Cantonese [edit]
Hanzi [edit]
要 (Yale yiu1, yiu3)
Japanese [edit]
See also 要する
Kanji [edit]
Readings [edit]
- On: よう (yō), from えう (yeu)
- Kun: いる (iru), もとめる (motomeru), かなめ (kaname), ぬま (numa [archaic]), ぬみ (numi [archaic])
Compounds [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Noun [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
Noun [edit]
要 (hiragana かなめ, romaji kaname)
Proper noun [edit]
要 (hiragana かなめ, romaji Kaname)
- A male given name
Korean [edit]
Hanja [edit]
要 (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo, Yale yo)
Mandarin [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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Verb [edit]
要 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yāo)
- to demand, to ask, to request, to coerce
- to want, will, going to (as future auxiliary), may, must
- John 1.7
- 这人来,为要作见证,就是为光作见证,叫众人因他可以信。
- Zhè rén lái, wèi yào zuò jiànzhèng, jiùshì wèi guāng zuò jiànzhèng, jiào zhòngrén yīn tā kĕyǐ xìn.
- The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
- John 1.7
Hanzi [edit]
要 (pinyin yào (yao4), Wade-Giles yao4)
Compounds [edit]
Min Nan [edit]
Hanji [edit]
要 (traditional and simplified, POJ iau, iàu)
Vietnamese [edit]
Han character [edit]
Categories:
- Han pictograms
- Han characters
- Grade 4 kanji
- Japanese kanji
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese proper nouns
- Japanese male given names
- Japanese terms written with one Han script character
- Japanese terms spelled with 要
- Korean hanja
- Mandarin verbs in simplified script
- Mandarin verbs in traditional script
- Mandarin verbs
- Chinese hanzi
- Mandarin entries with audio links
- Min Nan verbs in simplified script
- Min Nan verbs in traditional script
- Min Nan verbs
- Vietnamese Han tu
