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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
要说
as for
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
as for
02
when it comes to
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 要说 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 要说 appears in 29 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
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COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 要说.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 要说.
Directly before
- 我要说7
- 你要说3
- 麽要说2
- 话要说2
- 事要说2
Directly after
- 要说的8
- 要说吗3
- 要说什3
- 要说的话1
- 要说多少1
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 要说
What does 要说 mean in Chinese?
要说 (yàoshuō) means as for.
How do you pronounce 要说?
要说 is pronounced yàoshuō.
Is 要说 an HSK word?
要说 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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