次要

次要 cìyào in a sentence

Secondary

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

次要 (cìyào) means Secondary. Below are 3 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

这是 次要 的问题。

Zhè shì cìyào de wèntí.

This is a secondary issue.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 次要

先做重要的, 次要 的以后再说。

Xiān zuò zhòngyào de, cìyào de yǐhòu zài shuō.

Do the important things first and the lesser ones later.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 次要

迟到一 次要 扣分。

Chídào yí cì yào kòu fēn.

One late arrival means points deducted.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 扣

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How is 次要 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 次要 (cìyào, "Secondary"), 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 次要 an HSK word?

Yes — 次要 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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The dictionary page for 次要 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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