主要

主要 zhǔyào in a sentence

Main (principal - major - primary)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 2 sentences

主要 (zhǔyào) means Main (principal - major - primary). Below are 2 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

主要 教三年级。

Tā zhǔyào jiāo sān niánjí.

He mainly teaches the third grade.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 主要

这是我们 主要 的问题。

Zhè shì wǒmen zhǔyào de wèntí.

This is our main problem.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 主要

Questions about 主要

How is 主要 used in a sentence?

This page shows 2 sentences using 主要 (zhǔyào, "Main (principal - major - primary)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 主要 an HSK word?

Yes — 主要 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 主要?

The dictionary page for 主要 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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