Require in Chinese
to require · HSK 3
要求
- 要 to want
- 求 to ask
Counted with 个: 一个要求
老师要求我们明天交作业。 The teacher asked us to hand in our homework tomorrow.
Other ways to say require
More words with 要 or 求
How do you say require in Chinese?
Require in Chinese is 要求 (yāo qiú). You can also say 需 (xū).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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