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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.

想要xiǎng yào

to want to / to feel like / to fancy / to care for sb / desirous of

战略要点zhàn lüè yào diǎn

strategic point

扼要è yào

to the point / concise

收购要约shōu gòu yāo yuē

takeover bid

既要当婊子又要立牌坊jì yào dāng biǎo zi yòu yào lì pái fāng

see 又想當婊子又想立牌坊|又想当婊子又想立牌坊[yòu xiǎng dāng biǎo zi yòu xiǎng lì pái fāng]

会要huì yào

dynastic records of imperial China

有话要说yǒu huà yào shuō

to speak one's mind

权利要求quán lì yāo qiú

claim to rights (copyright, patent etc)

正中要害zhèng zhòng yào hài

to hit the nail on the head (idiom)

死不要脸sǐ bù yào liǎn

to know no shame / to be totally shameless

死要面子sǐ yào miàn zi

to regard face as all-important / to consider loss of face unthinkable

死要面子活受罪sǐ yào miàn zi huó shòu zuì

to go through hell for the sake of keeping up appearances (idiom)

津要jīn yào

(literary) key location / key post (important job)

硬要yìng yào

firmly set on doing sth / to insist on doing / determined in one's course of action

简要介绍jiǎn yào jiè shào

brief introduction

纪要jì yào

minutes / written summary of a meeting

给脸不要脸gěi liǎn bù yào liǎn

(coll.) to respond with arrogance or disrespect when shown courtesy / to abuse sb's goodwill

纲要gāng yào

outline / essential points

总要zǒng yào

nevertheless

自要zì yào

so long as / provided that

若要人不知,除非己莫为ruò yào rén bù zhī , chú fēi jǐ mò wéi

If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it (idiom). fig. If you do something bad, people will inevitably hear about it.

血债要用血来偿xuè zhài yào yòng xuè lái cháng

A debt of blood must be paid in blood. / Blood calls for blood.

血债要用血来还xuè zhài yào yòng xuè lái huán

A debt of blood must be paid in blood. / Blood calls for blood.

冲要chōng yào

(of a place) strategically important / strategic location / strategic point / (literary) important post

讨要tǎo yào

to insistently ask for / to demand

说话要算数shuō huà yào suàn shù

promises must be kept

丑媳妇早晚要见公婆chǒu xí fù zǎo wǎn yào jiàn gōng pó

(lit.) the ugly daughter-in-law must sooner or later meet her parents-in-law (proverb) / (fig.) something unpleasant or embarrassing cannot be avoided forever / sooner or later one must face it

险要xiǎn yào

strategically situated and easy to defend / strategic location

需要是发明之母xū yào shì fā míng zhī mǔ

Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).

非必要fēi bì yào

inessential / unnecessary

非要fēi yào

to want absolutely / to insist on (doing sth)

显要xiǎn yào

prominent / eminent / important person / notable / dignitary

要功yāo gōng

variant of 邀功[yāo gōng]

要末yào me

variant of 要麼|要么[yào me]

要样儿yào yàng r

(dialect) to care about appearances / to put on a good front

要买人心yāo mǎi rén xīn

variant of 邀買人心|邀买人心[yāo mǎi rén xīn]

千金要方Qiān jīn Yào fāng

Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold, early Tang compendium of herbal medicine by Sun Simiao 孫思邈|孙思邈[Sūn Sī miǎo]

古今韵会举要Gǔ jīn Yùn huì Jǔ yào

"Summary of the Collection of Rhymes Old and New", supplemented and annotated Yuan dynasty version of the no-longer-extant late Song or early Yuan "Collection of Rhymes Old and New" 古今韻會|古今韵会

武经总要Wǔ Jīng Zǒng Yào

"Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques", book published in 1044 during the Northern Song Dynasty

高要Gāo yāo

see 高要區|高要区[Gāo yāo Qū]

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