正要 zhèngyào to be just about to Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 正要 zhèngyào to be just about to adverbauxiliary To be on the point of doing something; just about to begin an action. 电话铃响时我正要去买东西。 diànhuàlíng xiǎng shí wǒ zhèngyào qù mǎi dōngxi. I was just about to go shopping when the telephone rang. 她正要说话，但他阻止了她。 tā zhèngyào shuō huà, dàn tā zǔzhǐ le tā. She was about to speak but he stopped her. Frequency Movie subtitles 6.14 per million appears in 3% of films Written text 7.07 per million Cross-References Same as 刚要 gāngyào Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
正要 zhèngyào to be just about to adverbauxiliary To be on the point of doing something; just about to begin an action. 电话铃响时我正要去买东西。 diànhuàlíng xiǎng shí wǒ zhèngyào qù mǎi dōngxi. I was just about to go shopping when the telephone rang. 她正要说话，但他阻止了她。 tā zhèngyào shuō huà, dàn tā zǔzhǐ le tā. She was about to speak but he stopped her. Frequency Movie subtitles 6.14 per million appears in 3% of films Written text 7.07 per million Cross-References Same as 刚要 gāngyào Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
