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[edit] Translingual

Stroke order
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[edit] Han character

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

  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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(Yale yiu1, yiu3)


[edit] Japanese

See also 要する

[edit] Kanji

(grade 4 kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin yào (yao4), Wade-Giles yao4)

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Verb

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin yāo)

  1. demand, ask, request, coerce

[edit] Verb

(traditional and simplified, Pinyin yào)

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