该

該traditional

HSK 3#116 by frequencyradical 讠

gāi["v","r"]

should; ought to; probably; must be; to deserve; to owe; to be sb's turn to do sth; that; the above-mentioned

Examples

你该戒烟。

You must quit smoking.

该起床了。

Time to get up.

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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.