要么
yào​me HSK6

either-or

要么 (要麼) yào​me
either-or conjunction
used to present a choice between two or more mutually exclusive alternatives

你要么认真地把这件事做完，要么就一点都别碰。

nǐ yào​me rèn​zhēn de bǎ zhè jiàn shì zuò​wán, yào​me jiù yī​diǎn dōu bié pèng.

Either finish this task properly or don't touch it at all.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
78.3 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
31.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 6

Cross-References

Has variant

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)