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)

Pronunciation


Adjective

必要

  1. necessary; essential

Noun

必要

  1. need

Derived terms

  • 必要勞動必要劳动
  • 必要性 (bìyàoxìng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (必要):
  • Japanese: 必要 (ひつよう) (hitsuyō)
  • Korean: 필요 (必要, piryo)
  • Vietnamese: tất yếu (必要)

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, rōmaji hitsuyō, historical hiragana ひつえう)

  1. needed, necessary

Inflection

Noun

必要 (hiragana ひつよう, rōmaji 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
  • 2000, Jonathan Bunt, Gillian Hall, The Oxford Starter Japanese Dictionary, First Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

必要 (piryo) (hangeul 필요)

  1. Hanja form? of 필요 (necessity).
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