要 yàoyāo HSK1 want Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Showing: summary All meanings 14,557 yào 14,335 must 8,443will 3,149important 1,665to want 764if 289to ask someone to do 147either... or... 34more 32summary 2yāo 238 to demand 238 Some sentences contain multiple meanings of 要, so totals are smaller than the sum of items. 2 sentences for 要 (yào — summary) 我真的不明白这篇文章的要点。 wǒ zhēnde bùmíngbai zhè piān wénzhāng de yàodiǎn. I don't really understand the point of this article. Source: CCMatrix老师要求我把演说的要点记下来。 lǎoshī yāoqiú wǒ bǎ yǎnshuō de yàodiǎn jì xià lái. The teacher asked me to note down the main points of the speech. Source: UM-Corpus: Education