要

Stroke order

EtymologyEdit

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 characterEdit

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

1. necessary, essential
2. necessity

Derived charactersEdit

• 腰 覅

ReferencesEdit

• 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

HanziEdit

要 (Yale yiu1, yiu3)

HanziEdit

要 (POJ yau (yau¹), yàu (yau³), Guangdong zau¹, zau⁵ [Hailu], jau¹, jeu¹, jeu⁵ [Siyan], jau¹ [Bao'an, Dongguan], jau¹, jeu¹ [Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim yau1, yau4)

ReferencesEdit

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

KanjiEdit

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

• 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])

CompoundsEdit

• 重要
• 要塞 (ようさい, yōsai)

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

要 (hiragana よう, romaji yō)

1. cornerstone
2. requirement

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

要 (hiragana かなめ, romaji kaname)

1. pivot, cornerstone, keystone

Proper nounEdit

要 (hiragana かなめ, romaji Kaname)

1. A male given name

HanjaEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

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PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

要 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yāo)

1. to demand, to ask, to request
2. to force, to coerce

VerbEdit

要 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yào)

1. to want

   我要睡觉。 wǒ yào shuìjiào.

   I want to sleep.

2. will, going to (as future auxiliary)
   • 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.

   我要走了。 wǒ yào zǒu le.

   I am going to go.

3. may, must

   不要喝酒。 bùyào hē jiǔ.

   Don't drink alcohol.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

要 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yào)

1. vital, important

HanziEdit

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

CompoundsEdit

• 要好

ReferencesEdit

• "要" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-03-11.
• "Sentences with 要", Tatoeba. URL accessed on 2014-03-11.

HanjiEdit

要 (traditional and simplified, POJ iau, iàu)

Han characterEdit

要 (yếu, éo, eo, yêu)