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要yào是shi

  1. (coll.) if

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Japanese data from JMdict, JMnedict, KANJIDIC2, and RADKFILE/KRADFILE (EDRDG). Chinese from CC-CEDICT. French and English from English Wiktionary via Wiktextract. Example sentences from Tatoeba. Stroke diagrams from KanjiVG. JLPT levels follow Jonathan Waller's lists. Full credits on the data and licences page.

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要
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

(bound form) to demand; to coerce

Pinyin
yāo
Strokes
9
Frequency
24 of 2500
Words starting with 要Words ending in 要Anywhere in a word
是
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

to be (followed by substantives only), correct; right; true, (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well, (adverb for emphatic assertion)

Pinyin
shì
Strokes
9
Frequency
5 of 2500
Words starting with 是Words ending in 是Anywhere in a word