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重要

zhòng yào

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word

重要 (zhòng yào) means "important". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 重要 means

1. important; significant; major

The characters in 重要

• 重zhòngheavy; serious; to attach importance to
• 要yàoto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should

Example sentences

• 这不重要。
  This is not important.
• 这个不重要。
  This is not important.
• 读书很重要。
  To read books is important.
• 这非常重要。
  This is very important.
• 对她很重要。
  It's important to her.
• 真的不重要。
  It's really not important.

Words starting with 重要

• 重要性zhòng yào xìngimportance

Words containing 重要

• 至关重要zhì guān zhòng yàoextremely important; vital; crucial

Where 重要 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 zhòng yào correctly.
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