只有……才……

Pinyin
zhǐyǒu…cái…
English
only if
HSK level
HSK 3

只有……才…… is pronounced zhǐyǒu…cái… and means “only if”. It is one of the words in the HSK 3 vocabulary, a level of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s standardised Chinese proficiency test. Recognising a word on a page and recalling it when you need it are different skills, and only the second survives a conversation — which is why LexiTrail shows you 只有……才…… again just before you would have forgotten it, rather than on a fixed schedule.

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