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要求

yāo qiú

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Measure word 点

要求 (yāo qiú) means "to request". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 要求 means

1. to request
2. to require
3. requirement
4. to stake a claim
5. to ask
6. to demand

The characters in 要求

• 要yàoto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should
• 求qiúto seek; to look for; to request

Example sentences

• 他的要求如下。
  Tā de yāoqiú rúxià.
  His request was as follows.
• 他们要求加薪。
  Tāmen yāoqiú jiāxīn.
  They asked for an increase of salary.
• 我要求她离去。
  I demanded that she should go.
• 他的要求很合理。
  Tā de yāoqiú hěn hélǐ.
  His request is very reasonable.
• 我要求汤姆关门。
  I asked Tom to close the door.
• 他要求我帮助他。
  He asked me to help him.

Words containing 要求

• 权利要求quán lì yāo qiúclaim to rights (copyright, patent etc)

Where 要求 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Sequence, Similarity & Remaining Words (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yāo qiú correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.