要是 yàoshi▶ Si

Stroke order

要是 is written in 18 strokes across 2 characters.

• 要 — 9 strokes
• 是 — 9 strokes

Related words

• 于是Por lo tanto
• 只要siempre que
• 可是sin embargo
• 是否Si
• 主要principal
• 必要necesario

要是 is pronounced yàoshi and means “Si”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 要是 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.