Read Edit View history 要是 yàoshi HSK3 if Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 要是 yàoshi if conjunction if; suppose; in case. Often used in the spoken language, it can be used alone or together with 的话 dehuà to express a hypothetical condition. 要是我突然不见了呢？ yàoshi wǒ tūrán bùjiàn le ne? What if I suddenly disappear? 他要是正在手术怎么办？ tā yàoshi zhèngzài shǒushù zěnmebàn? What if he's in surgery? Frequency Movie subtitles 81.0 per million appears in 27% of films Written text 76.8 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 3 Cross-References See 的话 dehuàSame as 要 yào Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
要是 yàoshi if conjunction if; suppose; in case. Often used in the spoken language, it can be used alone or together with 的话 dehuà to express a hypothetical condition. 要是我突然不见了呢？ yàoshi wǒ tūrán bùjiàn le ne? What if I suddenly disappear? 他要是正在手术怎么办？ tā yàoshi zhèngzài shǒushù zěnmebàn? What if he's in surgery? Frequency Movie subtitles 81.0 per million appears in 27% of films Written text 76.8 per million Details HSK 2.0 Level 4 HSK 3.0 Level 3 Cross-References See 的话 dehuàSame as 要 yào Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)