要

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 5.3 Verb 5.4 Verb

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Han character

要 (radical 146 西+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一田女 (MWV), four-corner 1040₄, composition ⿱西女)

1. necessary, essential
2. necessity

[edit] References

• 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

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

要 (Yale yiu1, yiu3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

要 (grade 4 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: よう (yō) < えう (yeu)
• Kun: いる (iru), もとめる (motomeru), かなめ (kaname), ぬま (numa [archaic]), ぬみ (numi [archaic])

[edit] Compounds

• 重要

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

要 (hangeul 요, revised yo, McCune-Reischauer yo, Yale yo)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

要 (pinyin yào (yao4), Wade-Giles yao⁴)

[edit] Compounds

• 要好

[edit] Verb

要 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yāo)

1. demand, ask, request, coerce

[edit] Verb

要 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yào)

1. important, vital, to want, will, going to (as future auxiliary), may, must