必 (bì)
must / certainly / necessary
How 必 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- Traditional
- 必
- Simplified
- 必 (unchanged)
Components
- 心 heart
- 丿 bend
Common words using 必
- 必須 bìxū
- to have to; must; compulsory
- 何必 hébì
- there is no need; why should
- 必備 bìbèi
- essential
- 必勝客 bìshèngkè
- Pizza Hut
- 必定 bìdìng
- be bound to; be sure to
- 必然 bìrán
- inevitable; certain; necessity
- 必要 bìyào
- necessary; essential; indispensable
- 必需品 bìxūpǐn
- necessity; essential (thing)
- 未必 wèibì
- not necessarily; maybe not
- 不必 bùbì
- need not; does not have to; not necessarily
- 事必躬親 shìbìgōngqīn
- to attend to everything personally
- 分秒必爭 fēnmiǎobìzhēng
- seize every minute and second (idiom); not a minute to lose; every moment counts
必 in a sentence
這種藥是家裡必備的東西。
Zhè zhǒng yào shì jiālǐ bìbèi de dōngxi.
“This kind of medicine is a must-have item in the house.”
How common is 必?
必 is the 248th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 60.4% of all running text.
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