需要
xū yào 1–4
to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
- Characters
- 2
- 需 · 要
- Syllables
- 2
- xū yào
- Frequency
- Very common
- corpus count 131
Part of speech: v,n,vn
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
不需要。
Bù xū yào
No need.
我需要你。
Wǒ xū yào nǐ
I need you.
我不需要。
Wǒ bù xū yào
I don't need it.
我需要出去。
Wǒ xū yào chū qù
I must go out.
Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.
Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 需要. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 要yàoHSK 1
to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 是); (bound form) important
- 不要bù yàoHSK 2
don't!; must not
- 重要zhòng yàoHSK 1
important; significant; major
- 要求yāo qiúHSK 2
to request; to require; requirement; to stake a claim; to ask; to demand
- 只要zhǐ yàoHSK 2
if only; so long as
- 主要zhǔ yàoHSK 2
main; principal; major; primary
- 就要jiù yàoHSK 2
will; shall; to be going to
- 必要bì yàoHSK 3
necessary; essential; indispensable; required
- 要是yào shiHSK 3
(coll.) if
- 需xūHSK 7
to require; to need; to want; necessity; need
- 要么yào meHSK 6
or; either one or the other
- 需求xū qiúHSK 3
requirement; to require; (economics) demand
- 要不yào bùHSK 7
otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...)
- 快要kuài yàoHSK 2
nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth)
- 将要jiāng yàoHSK 5
will; shall; to be going to
- 首要shǒu yàoHSK 7
the most important; of chief importance
- 必需bì xūHSK 5
to need; to require; essential; indispensable
- 急需jí xūHSK 7
to urgently need; urgent need
- 要不然yào bù ránHSK 6
otherwise; or else; or
- 要命yào mìngHSK 7
to cause sb's death; extremely; terribly; (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance
- 至关重要zhì guān zhòng yàoHSK 7
extremely important; vital; crucial; essential
- 要点yào diǎnHSK 7
main point; essential
- 要素yào sùHSK 6
essential factor; key constituent
- 不要紧bù yào jǐnHSK 4
unimportant; not serious; it doesn't matter; never mind; it looks all right, but