Character Details
| need | Ascii: — | w501 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 需 | xū | tshew | 1 | 雨 (rain) + 而 (and) → need | 需 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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When it rains, the need for combs goes up to deal with wet hair. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 3] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - How long does it take? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 181 - 邑 | yì | short-tailed bird | city | city enclosure | 那 邑 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 雨 (rain) + 而 (and) → need | 雨 (semantic) | 而 (phonetic) | phonetic from 而 | ||||||||
