要是

HSK 4#1413 by frequencyradical 覀

yào shi["c","v"]

(coll.) if

Examples

要是饿，就吃饭。

If you're hungry, have something to eat.

要是雨停了该多好！

If only the rain would stop!

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.