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要 い.る、かなめ need, main point, essence, pivot, key to 3 106 9 146 にし・かなめのかしら・おおいかんむり 象形 Pictographic (ヨウ) When Clint needs a woman, he likes to be on top.

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ヨウ とし 重要(じゅうよう): important; momentous; essential; principal; major必要(ひつよう): (1) necessary; needed; essential; indispensable (2) necessity; need; requirement要求(ようきゅう): demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire主要(しゅよう): chief; main; principal; major需要(じゅよう): demand; request要請(ようせい): (1) appeal; call for something; request; claim; demand (2) axiom要因(よういん): main cause; primary factor要素(ようそ): (1) component; factor; item (e.g. in list) (2) element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)要望(ようぼう): demand for; request要旨(ようし): point; essentials; gist; summary; fundamentals要する(ようする): to need; to demand; to take; to require要するに(ようするに): in a word; after all; the point is ...; in short ...; to put simply; the long and short of it is that ....要領(ようりょう): (1) point; gist; essentials; tenets; outline (2) knack; trick; the ropes要点(ようてん): gist; main point要る(いる): to need; to want 4 襾: cover; place on top of; west radical variant (no. 146)女: woman; female 襾 6 (none) need In some movie with the theme of the Old West, the population of a town finds themselve in dire need of women, after all of the town´s womens became crazy and started gunshooting and participating in duels and such.

Kanji	要
Onyomi	ヨウ
Kunyomi	い.る、かなめ
Nanori	とし
English	need, main point, essence, pivot, key to
Examples	重要(じゅうよう): important; momentous; essential; principal; major 必要(ひつよう): (1) necessary; needed; essential; indispensable (2) necessity; need; requirement 要求(ようきゅう): demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire 主要(しゅよう): chief; main; principal; major 需要(じゅよう): demand; request 要請(ようせい): (1) appeal; call for something; request; claim; demand (2) axiom 要因(よういん): main cause; primary factor 要素(ようそ): (1) component; factor; item (e.g. in list) (2) element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure) 要望(ようぼう): demand for; request 要旨(ようし): point; essentials; gist; summary; fundamentals 要する(ようする): to need; to demand; to take; to require 要するに(ようするに): in a word; after all; the point is ...; in short ...; to put simply; the long and short of it is that .... 要領(ようりょう): (1) point; gist; essentials; tenets; outline (2) knack; trick; the ropes 要点(ようてん): gist; main point 要る(いる): to need; to want
JLPT Level	3
Jouyou Grade	4
Frequency	106
Components	襾: cover; place on top of; west radical variant (no. 146) 女: woman; female
Number of Strokes	9
Kanji Radical	襾
Radical Number	146
Radical Strokes	6
Radical Reading	にし・かなめのかしら・おおいかんむり
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	象形 Pictographic
Keyword	need
Koohii Story 1	(ヨウ) When Clint needs a woman, he likes to be on top.
Koohii Story 2	In some movie with the theme of the Old West, the population of a town finds themselve in dire need of women, after all of the town´s womens became crazy and started gunshooting and participating in duels and such.

Main Demand E.G Gist Essential Principal Major Request