What do you want?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
想要
to want to
IN A VIDEO想要
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to want to
02
to feel like
03
to fancy
04
to care for sb
05
desirous of
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 想要 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 想要 appears in 523 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I'd like orange juice.
I'd like to go to London.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 想要.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 想要.
Directly before
- 我想要163
- 你想要74
- 汤姆想要28
- 不想要27
- 他想要22
Directly after
- 想要的51
- 想要什么16
- 想要一个15
- 想要你14
- 想要什10
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 想要
What does 想要 mean in Chinese?
想要 (xiǎngyào) means to want to.
How do you pronounce 想要?
想要 is pronounced xiǎngyào.
Is 想要 an HSK word?
想要 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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