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必要

必要

Chinese

 
certainly; must; will; necessarily
 
important; vital; to want; to be going to; must; demand; ask; request; coerce
simp. and trad.
(必要)

Adjective

必要

  1. necessary; essential

Derived terms


Japanese

Kanji in this term
ひつ
Grade: 4
よう
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Etymology

/pitueu//fit͡suyoː//hit͡suyoː/

From Middle Chinese 必要 (pjit  ʔjiewH, literally necessity + need). Compare modern Hakka reading pit-yeu.

Pronunciation

Adjective

必要 (-na inflection, hiragana ひつよう, romaji hitsuyō, historical hiragana ひつえう)

  1. needed, necessary

Inflection

Noun

必要 (hiragana ひつよう, romaji hitsuyō, historical hiragana ひつえう)

  1. need, necessity

Antonyms

Derived terms

Idioms

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  • 2000, Jonathan Bunt, Gillian Hall, The Oxford Starter Japanese Dictionary, First Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198601972

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

必要 (piryo) (hangeul 필요)

  1. Hanja form? of 필요, “necessity”.