要

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

(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

female / woman / daughter

archaic variant of 汝[ru3]

Character component without intrinsic meaning

don't! / must not

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

needless; unnecessary

needless / unnecessary

to fail to grasp the main points

don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom) / there's more than one way to skin a cat

must