He wants the money.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
要钱
to charge
IN A VIDEO要钱
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to charge
02
to demand payment
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 要钱 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 要钱 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He is always asking for money.
My little brother asked me for money.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 要钱.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 要钱.
Directly before
- 我要钱5
- 我们要钱1
- 总是要钱1
- 他要钱1
Directly after
- 要钱没有1
- 要钱的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 要钱
What does 要钱 mean in Chinese?
要钱 (yàoqián) means to charge.
How do you pronounce 要钱?
要钱 is pronounced yàoqián.
Is 要钱 an HSK word?
要钱 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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