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Mythic Mandarin

需要 (xū yào): meaning and stroke order

需要 (xū yào) means to need; to want; to demand; to require, needs.

需要

Simplified
需要
Traditional
需要 (same form)
Pinyin
xū yào

Stroke order of 需要

需

  • xū to require; to need
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

要

  • yāo (bound form) to demand; to coerce
  • yào to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 需要

  1. xū yào
    • to need; to want; to demand; to require
    • needs

Radicals of the characters

需
Radical 雨 (Kangxi radical 173) · 14 strokes · 雨 on top, 而 below
要
Radical 襾 (Kangxi radical 146) · 9 strokes · 覀 on top, 女 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

需要 in our stories

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  • 他们在自己的小区里贴了五十张纸，上面写着：“需要借什么，就在下面写上；愿意借出什么，也写上。”

    tāmen zài zìjǐ de xiǎoqū lǐ tiē le wǔshí zhāng zhǐ shàngmiàn xiě zhe xūyào jiè shénme jiù zài xiàmiàn xiě shàng yuànyì jièchū shénme yě xiě shàng

    They put up fifty sheets of paper around their housing estate: "Write below what you need to borrow, and what you're willing to lend."

    From the story Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5

Stories using 需要

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).