要是 (yàoshi) means If. Below are 4 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
要是 有问题，请给我打电话。
Yàoshi yǒu wèntí, qǐng gěi wǒ dǎ diànhuà.
If there is a problem, please call me.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 要是
要是 明天下雨，我们就不去了。
Yàoshi míngtiān xià yǔ, wǒmen jiù bú qù le.
If it rains tomorrow, we will not go.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 要是
当初 要是 听他的就好了。
Dāngchū yàoshi tīng tā de jiù hǎo le.
If only we had listened to him at the time.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 当初
你 要是 有更高明的主意，请说出来。
Nǐ yàoshi yǒu gèng gāomíng de zhǔyi, qǐng shuō chūlái.
If you have a better idea, please say so.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 高明
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Questions about 要是
How is 要是 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 要是 (yàoshi, "If"), 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 要是 an HSK word?
Yes — 要是 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 要是?
The dictionary page for 要是 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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