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Translingual
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Han character
要 (radical 146, 襾+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一田女 (MWV), four-corner 10404, composition ⿱覀女)
Descendants
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
Chinese
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Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 要 | ||
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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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Characters in the same phonetic series (要) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
腰 | *qew |
要 | *qew, *qews |
葽 | *qew, *qews, *qeːw, *qeːwʔ |
喓 | *qew |
闄 | *qewʔ |
偠 | *qeːwʔ |
騕 | *qeːwʔ |
婹 | *qeːwʔ |
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 1
Definitions
要
- † to demand; to ask; to request
- † to force; to coerce
- 要脅 / 要胁 ― yāoxié ― to threaten, to blackmail
- † to promise
- † to block; to intercept
- 要擊 / 要击 ― yāojī ― to intercept, to ambush
- † Alternative form of 邀 (“to invite”).
- † Alternative form of 腰 (“waist”).
- † contract of alliance
- 久要 ― jiǔyāo ― former contract
- A surname.
- to want
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
Definitions
要
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 要 (“to want to”) [map] | ||
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Variety | Location | Words |
Classical Chinese | 欲 | |
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 要 | |
Mandarin | Beijing | 要, 想 |
Cantonese | Guangzhou | 要, 想 |
Hong Kong | 要, 想 | |
Hakka | Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 愛 |
Liudui (S. Sixian) | 愛 | |
Hsinchu (Hailu) | 愛 | |
Dongshi (Dabu) | 愛 | |
Hsinchu (Raoping) | 愛 | |
Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 愛 | |
Min Dong | Fuzhou | 欲 |
Min Nan | Xiamen | 欲 |
Quanzhou | 欲 | |
Zhangzhou | 欲 | |
Taipei | 欲 | |
Kaohsiung | 欲 | |
Tainan | 欲 | |
Taichung | 欲 | |
Hsinchu | 欲 | |
Lukang | 欲 | |
Sanxia | 欲 | |
Yilan | 欲 | |
Kinmen | 欲 | |
Magong | 欲 | |
Penang | 愛 | |
Philippines (Manila) | 欲 | |
Chaozhou | 愛 | |
Shantou | 愛 | |
Wu | Wenzhou | 愛 |
Compounds
Derived terms from 要
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Korean
Hanja
要 • (yo) (hangeul 요)
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Vietnamese
Han character
要 (yếu)
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