Chinese symbol for “essentials”
要义
yào yì
Traditional: 要義
the essentials
The closest CC-CEDICT match for essentials is 要义 (yào yì), defined as: the essentials.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “essentials”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 基本面 | jī běn miàn | basics; essentials; fundamentals; (finance) fundamentals |
| 要领 (要領) | yào lǐng | main aspects; essentials |
| 精义 (精義) | jīng yì | quintessence; essentials |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 要义.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 需要 | xū yào | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs |
| 主要 | zhǔ yào | main; principal; major; primary |
| 重要 | zhòng yào | important; significant; major |
| 要求 | yāo qiú | to request; to require |
| 不要 | bù yào | don't!; must not |
| 只要 | zhǐ yào | so long as; provided; if |
| 意义 (意義) | yì yì | sense; meaning |
| 主义 (主義) | zhǔ yì | -ism; ideology |
See also: Japanese symbol for “essentials”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.