必要
bì yào 4–4
necessary; essential; indispensable; required
- Characters
- 2
- 必 · 要
- Syllables
- 2
- bì yào
- Frequency
- Common
- corpus count 1,191
Part of speech: a,an
Character by character
Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.
Example sentences
你有必要了解。
Nǐ yǒu bì yào liǎo jiě
You need to know.
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Words with the same characters
These words share at least one character with 必要. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.
- 要yàoHSK 1
to want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should; if (same as 是); (bound form) important
- 需要xū yàoHSK 3
to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
- 不要bù yàoHSK 2
don't!; must not
- 重要zhòng yàoHSK 1
important; significant; major
- 必须bì xūHSK 2
to have to; must; compulsory; necessarily
- 要求yāo qiúHSK 2
to request; to require; requirement; to stake a claim; to ask; to demand
- 只要zhǐ yàoHSK 2
if only; so long as
- 主要zhǔ yàoHSK 2
main; principal; major; primary
- 就要jiù yàoHSK 2
will; shall; to be going to
- 要是yào shiHSK 3
(coll.) if
- 不必bù bìHSK 3
need not; does not have to; not necessarily
- 要么yào meHSK 6
or; either one or the other
- 必bìHSK 5
certainly; must; will; necessarily
- 要不yào bùHSK 7
otherwise; or else; how about...?; either... (or...)
- 快要kuài yàoHSK 2
nearly at the point of (doing sth); about to (do sth)
- 必然bì ránHSK 3
inevitable; certain; necessity
- 将要jiāng yàoHSK 5
will; shall; to be going to
- 何必hé bìHSK 7
there is no need; why should
- 首要shǒu yàoHSK 7
the most important; of chief importance
- 必需bì xūHSK 5
to need; to require; essential; indispensable
- 未必wèi bìHSK 4
not necessarily; maybe not
- 要不然yào bù ránHSK 6
otherwise; or else; or
- 要命yào mìngHSK 7
to cause sb's death; extremely; terribly; (used in complaining about sth) to be a nuisance
- 至关重要zhì guān zhòng yàoHSK 7
extremely important; vital; crucial; essential