要
要 — yo
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 요긴할 요
- Romanization
- yo
- English
- necessary, essential; necessity
- Mandarin
- yào
- Japanese on'yomi
- ヨウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- い.る かなめ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Grade 4
- Newspaper frequency
- #106 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 襾 (146, 3 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8981
Parts that make up 要
- 覀 variant of 襾 위아래로 덮은 뚜껑덮고 가리는 일. 覀 로 쓴다
- 女 계집 녀 팔을 모으고 꿇어앉은 여자여자와 집안의 관계
Korean example words with 要
- 요건要件 Korean gloss: 필요한 조건
- 요리要理 Korean gloss: 중요한 교리
- 요명要名 Korean gloss: 명예를 구함
- 요임要任 Korean gloss: 중요한 임무
- 요항要項 Korean gloss: 중요한 사항
- 대요大要 Korean gloss: 간략한 줄거리
- 주요主要 Korean gloss: 주되고 중요함
- 중요重要 Korean gloss: 귀중하고 요긴함
- 요처要處 Korean gloss: 가장 중요한 부분
- 요령要領 Korean gloss: 적당히 해 넘기는 잔꾀
- 요원要員 Korean gloss: 중요한 지위에 있는 사람
- 요강要綱 Korean gloss: 기본이 되는 줄거리나 골자
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 要
- 重要じゅうよう important; essential; significant
- 必要ひつよう necessary; needed; essential
- 要求ようきゅう demand; firm request; requisition
- 主要しゅよう chief; main; principal
- 需要じゅよう demand; need; demand
- 要請ようせい appeal; call for something; request
- 要因よういん main cause; primary factor
- 必要性ひつようせい necessity; need
- 要素ようそ component; factor; item (e.g. in list)
- 要望ようぼう demand for; request
- 要員よういん (necessary) personnel; required person
- 要旨ようし (main) point; gist; key points
Characters sharing the phonetic 要
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “요” in Korean.
Other hanja read “요”
Other hanja with radical 襾
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