要是 yàoshi
yàoshi
conjunction
if
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
, Subdomain: Function Words
, Concept: Correlative 关联词
Notes: This conjunction is often used as a connecting word in the subordinate clause of subordinate complex sentences (CC-CEDICT '要是'; Guoyu '要是')
Contained in
- 需要是发明之母(需要是發明之母) Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 117 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 28 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 31 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 6 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 32 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第五十四回 Chapter 54 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 24 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- 第二回 Chapter 100 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
- Teahouse - Act I (Part) 《茶馆》 第一幕 （部分） A small number of phrases from the writings of Lao She — count: 1
- 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 1