要

See also yao

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. necessary, essential
2. necessity

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

要 (Yale yiu1, yiu3)

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Japanese

See also 要する

Kanji

要 (grade 4 kanji)

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])

Compounds

• 重要

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}

Hanzi

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

Compounds

• 要好

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