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重要 (zhòng yào): meaning and stroke order

重要 (zhòng yào) means important; significant; major.

重要

Simplified
重要
Traditional
重要 (same form)
Pinyin
zhòng yào

Stroke order of 重要

重

  • chóng to repeat; repetition
  • zhòng heavy; serious
  • 9 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 重要

  1. zhòng yào
    • important; significant; major

Radicals of the characters

重
Radical 里 (Kangxi radical 166) · 9 strokes · built from 𢆍 and 二
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.

重要 in our stories

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  • 更重要的是,她手里已经有了另外两家供应商的报价,虽然都不如老郝的产品稳定,但价格低了不少。

    gèng zhòngyào de shì tā shǒu lǐ yǐjīng yǒu le lìngwài liǎng jiā gōngyìngshāng de bàojià suīrán dōu bù rú lǎo Hǎo de chǎnpǐn wěndìng dàn jiàgé dī le bù shǎo

    More importantly, she already had quotes from two other suppliers. Their products were less reliable than Old Hao's, but considerably cheaper.

    From the story A minute of silence HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 几千年来,中国人一直把养蚕的方法当作最重要的秘密,严禁把蚕和蚕种带出国。

    jǐqiān nián lái Zhōngguó rén yìzhí bǎ yǎng cán de fāngfǎ dàngzuò zuì zhòngyào de mìmì yánjìn bǎ cán hé cánzhǒng dài chū guó

    For thousands of years the Chinese treated silkworm-raising as their most important secret and strictly forbade taking silkworms or their eggs out of the country.

    From the story Leizu and the silkworm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 在他看来,能不能成功并不是最重要的,重要的是面对这么大的对手,她从来没有低过头。

    zài tā kànlai néng bù néng chénggōng bìng bú shì zuì zhòngyào de zhòngyào de shì miànduì zhème dà de duìshǒu tā cónglái méiyǒu dī guò tóu

    In his view, whether she could succeed was not what mattered most; what mattered was that, facing such a vast opponent, she never once bowed her head.

    From the story Jingwei fills the sea HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 重要

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).