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Mythic Mandarin

要求 (yāo qiú): meaning and stroke order

要求 (yāo qiú) means to request, to require, requirement, to stake a claim, to ask, to demand, 点.

要求

Simplified
要求
Traditional
要求 (same form)
Pinyin
yāo qiú

Stroke order of 要求

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

求

  • qiú to seek; to look for
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 要求

  1. yāo qiú
    • to request
    • to require
    • requirement
    • to stake a claim
    • to ask
    • to demand
    • CL:點|点[dian3]

Radicals of the characters

要
Radical 襾 (Kangxi radical 146) · 9 strokes · 覀 on top, 女 below
求
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes

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.

要求 in our stories

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  • 这下可闯祸了。龙王找到李靖，要求他交出儿子，不然就要淹没整个陈塘关。

    zhè xià kě chuǎnghuò le Lóngwáng zhǎodào Lǐ Jìng yāoqiú tā jiāo chū érzi bùrán jiù yào yānmò zhěng gè Chéntángguān

    Now he had really caused a disaster. The Dragon King found Li Jing and demanded he hand over his son, or he would drown the whole of Chentang Pass.

    From the story Nezha stirs up the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • “上个星期，一个柿子正好砸在我的新车上，车顶凹了一块。我要求很简单：把树砍了！”

    shàng gè xīngqī yí gè shìzi zhènghǎo zá zài wǒ de xīn chē shàng chēdǐng āo le yí kuài wǒ yāoqiú hěn jiǎndān bǎ shù kǎn le

    "Last week a persimmon landed right on my new car and dented the roof. My demand is simple: cut the tree down!"

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 要求

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).