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次要

cì yào

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

次要 (cì yào) means "secondary". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 次要 means

1. secondary

The characters in 次要

• 次cìnext in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc)
• 要yàoto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should

Where 次要 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Discourse Particles & Adverbs (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cì yào correctly.
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