要
See also: 贾
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TranslingualEdit
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Han characterEdit
要 (Kangxi radical 146, 襾+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一田女 (MWV), four-corner 10404, composition ⿱覀女)
Derived charactersEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 1128, character 16
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34768
- Dae Jaweon: page 1597, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2805, character 8
- Unihan data for U+8981
ChineseEdit
| trad. | 要 | |
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| simp. # | 要 | |
| 2nd round simp. | ⿱⺄女 | |
Glyph originEdit
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| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Pictogram (象形): a woman (女) with two hands pointing to her midsection.
Original meaning was “waist” (now 腰 (OC *qew)). The hands gradually shifted upwards; the 覀 in the modern form evolved from the hands and the woman's head.
Pronunciation 1Edit
DefinitionsEdit
要
- to demand; to ask; to request
- 要求 ― yāoqiú ― to request
- to force; to coerce
- to promise
- to block; to intercept
- (obsolete) Alternative form of 邀 (“to invite”).
- (obsolete) Alternative form of 腰 (“waist”).
- (obsolete) contract of alliance
- 久要 ― jiǔyāo ― former contract
- a surname
DescendantsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 要
Pronunciation 2Edit
DefinitionsEdit
要
- to want; to wish
- to wish to have or keep
- to ask for
- to request
- to need
- will; going to (future auxiliary)
- should; must; to have to
- vital; important
- important points; essentials
- if; in case of
- (dated Shanghainese Wu) Used to indicate the future tense.
Usage notesEdit
- Beware that 要飯／要饭 (yàofàn, literally “to want rice”) is a phrase with the meaning "to be a beggar/loafer" which is insulting to others and should be avoided when asking a person whether they want rice.
SynonymsEdit
Dialectal synonyms of 要 (“to want (to do something)”) [map]
Dialectal synonyms of 要 (“to wish to have; to want (an object)”) [map]
| Variety | Location | Words |
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| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 要 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 要 |
| Taiwan | 要 | |
| Yantai (Muping) | 要 | |
| Jinan | 要 | |
| Wanrong | 要 | |
| Xi'an | 要 | |
| Wuhan | 要 | |
| Chengdu | 要 | |
| Guiyang | 要 | |
| Guilin | 要 | |
| Hefei | 要 | |
| Singapore | 要 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 要, 愛 |
| Hong Kong | 要, 愛 | |
| Yangjiang | 愛, 捰 | |
| Singapore (Guangfu) | 要 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 要 |
| Lichuan | 要 | |
| Hakka | Meixian | 愛 |
| Longmen (Luxi Bendihua) | 愛 | |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 愛 | |
| Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) | 愛 | |
| Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) | 愛 | |
| Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) | 愛 | |
| Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) | 愛 | |
| Huizhou | Jixi | 要 |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 要 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 讓 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 欲挃, 挃 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 欲挃 |
| Quanzhou | 欲挃 | |
| Zhangzhou | 欲挃 | |
| Tainan | 欲挃 | |
| Singapore (Hokkien) | 愛 | |
| Manila (Hokkien) | 欲挃, 挃, 愛 | |
| Chaozhou | 愛 | |
| Jieyang | 愛 | |
| Singapore (Teochew) | 愛 | |
| Wenchang | 要 | |
| Singapore (Hainanese) | 要 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 要 |
| Wenzhou | 要 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 要 |
| Loudi | 要 | |
DescendantsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 要
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Pronunciation 3Edit
DefinitionsEdit
要
CompoundsEdit
JapaneseEdit
| Shinjitai | 要 | |
| Kyūjitai [1] |
要󠄁 要+ 󠄁?(Adobe-Japan1) |
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| 要󠄃 要+ 󠄃?(Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) | ||
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See also 要する
KanjiEdit
要
ReadingsEdit
- Go-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)←えう (eu, historical)←𛀁う (yeu, ancient)
- Kan-on: よう (yō, Jōyō)←えう (eu, historical)←𛀁う (yeu, ancient)
- Kun: いる (iru, 要る, Jōyō); かなめ (kaname, 要, Jōyō); かのめ (kanome, 要); ぬま (numa, 要); ぬみ (numi, 要)
CompoundsEdit
Compounds
- 肝要 (kan'yō, “critical; vital”)
- 概要 (gaiyō)
- 強要 (kyōyō)
- 主要 (shuyō)
- 所要 (shoyō)
- 重要 (jūyō)
- 需要 (juyō)
- 必要 (hitsuyō)
- 不必要 (fuhitsuyō)
- 不要 (fuyō)
- 法要 (hōyō, “wake; memorial service”)
- 要員 (yōin)
- 要因 (yōin)
- 要求 (yōkyū)
- 要件 (yōken)
- 要綱 (yōkō, “gist; general idea”)
- 要項 (yōkō, “main points”)
- 要塞 (yōsai)
- 要旨 (yōshi)
- 要所 (yōsho, “important position”)
- 要衝 (yōshō)
- 要職 (yōshoku)
- 要人 (yōjin)
- 要請 (yōsei)
- 要素 (yōso)
- 要注意 (yōchūi, “special care required”)
- 要点 (yōten)
- 要望 (yōbō)
- 要約 (yōyaku)
- 要領 (yōryō)
Etymology 1Edit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 要 |
| よう Grade: 4 |
| on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 要 (MC ʔiᴇu, ʔiᴇuH).
First cited to 611.[2]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
Etymology 2Edit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 要 |
| かなめ Grade: 4 |
| kun’yomi |
/kani no me/ → /kanome/ → /kaname/
A shift from older 蟹の目 (kani no me, “crab's eye”) from a superficial resemblance of the round pinhead of a folding fan to a crab's eye, influenced by a reanalysis of the term as 金目 (kaname, literally “metal” + visually prominent feature), as the pins were increasingly made from metal instead of earlier bamboo, wood, or whalebone.
First cited to 1220.[2]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
- [1254] a pin or rivet holding the spines of a folding fan together
- Synonyms: 要 (kanome), 蟹の目 (kani no me)
- [1220] (by extension) a pivot, cornerstone, keystone
- Synonym: (cornerstone, keystone) 要石 (kaname ishi)
- [1612] a pin, often decorated, holding the handle to the tang of a katana
- Synonym: 目貫 (menuki)
- [1712] short for 要黐 (kaname mochi), a tree, Japanese photinia (Photinia glabra)
- [1906] (architecture) in a certain kind of traditional Japanese hip roof where the rafters splay out like the spines of a fan, the central point to which the rafter lines converge
- Coordinate term: (literally “fan rafter”) 扇垂木 (ōgi taruki)
Proper nounEdit
- a female given name
Etymology 3Edit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 要 |
| かのめ Grade: 4 |
| kun’yomi |
/kani no me/ → /kanome/
A shift from older 蟹の目 (kani no me, “crab's eye”) from a superficial resemblance of the round pinhead of a folding fan to a crab's eye, influenced by a reanalysis of the term as 金目 (kaname, literally “metal” + visually prominent feature), as the pins were increasingly made from metal instead of earlier bamboo, wood, or whalebone.
First cited to roughly 1140.[2] This reading may be obsolete, and it is not included in some dictionaries.[3][4][5]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
- [circa 1140] (archaic, possibly obsolete) the pin or rivet holding the spines of a folding fan together
Derived termsEdit
- 要 (kaname)
Etymology 4Edit
| Kanji in this term |
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| 要 |
| ぬみ Grade: 4 |
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| Kanji in this term |
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| 要 |
| ぬま Grade: 4 |
| kun’yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
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| 要害 |
From Old Japanese. Further derivation unknown.
First cited in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE, listed with both readings numa and numi.[2]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
- [720] (archaic, possibly obsolete) fortress, redoubt
- [720] (archaic, possibly obsolete) important point, key
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 1914, 漢和大辭書 (Kanwa Dai Jisho, “The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary”) (in Japanese), page 1937 (paper), page 1020 (digital), Tōkyō: 興文社 (Kōbunsha)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
Further readingEdit
- Kaname entry at Gogen-Allguide (in Japanese)
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
要 (eumhun 중요할 요 (jung'yohal yo))
- Hanja form? of 요 (“importance”).
CompoundsEdit
VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
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