to demand / to request / to coerce
important / vital / to want / to ask for / will / going to (as future auxiliary) / may / must / (used in a comparison) must be / probably / if

= + : Bessie Coleman shows Maud Younger how to use a knuckle duster in the aorta's bathroom. She says it's very important and that Maud will have to get one herself.
(bound form) to demand; to coerce
to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是[yao4 shi5]) / (bound form) important

要 character breakdown

female / woman / daughter

I'll represent 女 by Bessie Coleman, the first female pilot of African American descent.
archaic variant of 汝[ru3]
Character component without intrinsic meaning

= + : Looks like a knuckle duster.

Characters with 要 as component

waist / lower back / pocket / middle / loins

= + : Maud Younger (y) is teaching the moon (月) how to dance in front of the aorta (ao1). She tells him again and again that he absolutely has to (要) use his hips (腰) more, as it is very important (要).
grasshopper chirp / mosquito buzz
if only / so long as / (contraction of 只 and 要)
svelte / sylphlike
(dialect) don't / must not / (contraction of 不 and 要)
Polygala japonica / lush (grass)
contraction of 勿要 / must not / please don't
name of a fabulous horse

Words with 要

main / principal / major / primary
unimportant / not serious / it doesn't matter / never mind / it looks all right, but
to have no sense of shame; shameless
to have no sense of shame / shameless
to fail to grasp the main points
to insist on doing sth / must do it, despite everything
necessary and sufficient condition
a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)
if you live a life of crime, sooner or later you'll pay for it
don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom) / there's more than one way to skin a cat

Sentences with 要

dà
wáng
yào
jiàn
còu
shǒu
hé
yòng
de
bi̅ng
qì
ma
 
 
dào
yě
bù
nán