Character Details
| want (to); order (to) | Ascii: 21040 | w444 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 要 | yào | yoh | 4 | 覀 (west) + 女 (woman) → want; need | 要 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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In the old west women were badly wanted because of the proportion of men to women. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - want, will | |||||||||||
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| - I want to learn Chinese because my wife is Chinese | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 147 - 艮 | gèn | clothes | still | stopping shape | 良 艰 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 覀 (west) + 女 (woman) → want; need | 覀 (semantic origin) | 女 (phonetic) | phonetic from 女 | ||||||||