要

Meaning

要 centers on the central, indispensable part of something: the essence, the main point, or the pivot that everything else depends on. The sense of 'need' follows naturally from that idea of something essential.

• 必要ひつよう
  N4

  necessary; needed; essential; indispensable

• 重要じゅうよう
  N3

  important; essential; significant; major; key; principal

• 要素ようそ
  N3

  component; factor; item (e.g. in list)

• 要求ようきゅう
  N3

  demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire

• 要るいる
  N5

  to be needed; to be necessary; to be required; to be wanted; to need; to want

• 不要ふよう
  N1

  unnecessary; unneeded

• 需要じゅよう
  N3

  demand; need

• 要かなめ
  N1

  pivot

• 要請ようせい
  N1

  appeal; call for something; request; claim; demand

• 主要しゅよう
  N2

  chief; main; principal; major

• 要因よういん
  N1

  main cause; primary factor

• 要望ようぼう
  N1

  demand for; request

• 概要がいよう
  N1

  outline; summary; overview; synopsis; abstract; abridgment; abridgement

• 要するようする
  N1

  to need; to demand; to take; to require

• 要するにようするに
  N3

  in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

• 要件ようけん

  important matter

• 強要きょうよう
  N1

  coercion; extortion; compulsion; force

• 要員よういん

  (necessary) personnel; required person

• 要はようは

  in short; the point is; the important thing is; in a word; basically

• 要領ようりょう
  N2

  point; gist; essentials; tenets; outline

• 要約ようやく
  N2

  summary; digest

• 所要しょよう

  required; needed; necessary

• 要点ようてん
  N2

  gist; main point

• 要人ようじん

  important person

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