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钥匙

yào shi

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 鑰匙 Measure word 把

钥匙 (yào shi) means "key". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 钥匙 means

1. key

The characters in 钥匙

• 钥yuèkey; also pr. yào
• 匙shiused in 钥匙

Example sentences

• 带钥匙来。
  Bring the key.
• 我钥匙丢了。
  I have lost my key.
• 他转动钥匙。
  He turned the key.
• 不要玩钥匙。
  Do not play with the key.
• 你拿错钥匙了。
  You took the wrong key.
• 我把钥匙掉了。
  I have lost the key.

Words starting with 钥匙

• 钥匙卡yào shi kǎkeycard
• 钥匙链yào shi liànkeychain

Words containing 钥匙

• 配钥匙pèi yào shito make a key
• 私人钥匙sī rén yào shiprivate key (in encryption)
• 万能钥匙wàn néng yào shimaster key; skeleton key; passkey
• 一把钥匙开一把锁yī bǎ yào shi kāi yī bǎ suǒOne key opens one lock.; There is a different solution for each problem. (idiom)

Sounds the same

Read yào shi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 要是(colloquial) if

Where 钥匙 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Containers & classifiers (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yào shi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.