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需

xū

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 character level 3 Character

需 (xū) means "to require; to need; to want". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 需 means

1. to require
2. to need
3. to want
4. necessity
5. need

Example sentences

• 不需要。
  No need.
• 需要准许。
  Xūyào zhǔnxǔ.
  A permit is required.
• 无需仁慈。
  Wúxū réncí.
  There's no need to be gentle.
• 我需要你。
  I need you.
• 我需要钱。
  I'm in need of money.
• 我不需要。
  I don't need it.

Words starting with 需

• 需要xū yàoto need; to want; to demand; to require; needs
• 需求xū qiúrequirement; to require; (economics) demand
• 需求层次理论xū qiú céng cì lǐ lùn(Maslow's) hierarchy of needs (psychology)
• 需要是发明之母xū yào shì fā míng zhī mǔNecessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).

Words containing 需

• 必需bì xūto need; to require; essential
• 无需wú xūneedless
• 急需jí xūto urgently need; urgent need
• 供需gōng xūsupply and demand
• 内需nèi xūdomestic demand
• 必需品bì xū pǐnnecessity; essential (thing)
• 生活必需品shēng huó bì xū pǐnlife's necessities
• 各取所需gè qǔ suǒ xūeach takes what he needs (idiom)
• 不时之需bù shí zhī xūa possible period of want or need
• 军需jūn xūmilitary supplies
• 外需wài xūexternal demand (demand for a country's goods and services from foreign markets)
• 所需suǒ xūnecessary (for); required
• 特需tè xūspecial need; particular requirement
• 基本需要jī běn xū yàobasic necessity; fundamental need
• 非必需fēi bì xūinessential
• 总需求zǒng xū qiúaggregate demand
• 社会总需求shè huì zǒng xū qiúaggregate social demand; total requirement of society
• 按需àn xūon demand; according to demand
• 按需分配àn xū fēn pèidistribution according to need
• 军需官jūn xū guānquartermaster
• 按需出版àn xū chū bǎnpublishing on demand
• 刚需gāng xū(economics) rigid demand; inelastic demand (abbr. for 刚性需求
• 化学需氧量huà xué xū yǎng liàng(environmental science) chemical oxygen demand; COD
• 生化需氧量shēng huà xū yǎng liàng(environmental science) biochemical oxygen demand; BOD

Characters that look like 需

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 雷léithunder; (bound form; military) mine, as in 地雷; (colloquial) to shock; to stun; to astound
• 慧huìintelligent
• 蓄xùto store up; to grow (e.g. a beard); to entertain (ideas)
• 熏xūnto smoke; to fumigate; to assail the nostrils
• 裳shangused in 衣裳
• 嵩sōng(literary) (of mountains) lofty

Sounds the same

Read xū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 须must; to have to; to wait
• 虚emptiness; void; abstract theory or guiding principles
• 墟ruins; (literary) village; variant of 圩
• 嘘to exhale slowly; to hiss; hush!
• 吁sh; hush
• 戌11th earthly branch: 7-9 p.m., 9th solar month (8th October-6th November), year of the…
• 胥all; assist; to store
• 圩(dialect) country fair; country market
• 魆dim; dark; sudden; surreptitious
• 呴breathe on; yawn; roar
• 顼used in 颛顼; used in 顼顼; Taiwan pr. xù
• 旴dawn

Where 需 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 3 Characters · Set 5 (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.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xū correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.