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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

[děi]
  1. 1. verb [需要] need
    买房多少钱?
    How much money do you need to buy a house?
  2. 2. aux vb [必要] must
    要想成功,就艰苦奋斗。
    If you want to succeed, you must work hard.
    我们6点出发。
    We have to leave at six.
  3. 3. aux vb [表示推测] will
    再不听话,就挨批评了。
    If you don't do as you are told, you will get a telling off.
    快走,电影开始了。
    Get a move on, the film's just about to start.

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

[děi]
  1. 1. verb need
    这个工程三个月才能完。
    This project will take three months to complete.
    仔细研究一下这个问题。
  2. 2. verb must; have to
    有错误就批评。
    Wherever mistakes occur, they must be criticized.
    认真反省一下自己。
    这项任务必须在十二点之前完成。
  3. 3. verb certainly will
    要不快走,我们就迟到了。
    We'll be late if we don't hurry.

Examples

我近视,要挨很近才看清。
I'm near-sighted and have to get very close in order to see things clearly. 挨近
他说这么透彻,不由你不信服。
He spoke so cogently that you couldn't help being convinced. 不由得
踮着脚才够着架子。
He had to stand on tiptoe to reach the shelf.
咱们把情况摸清楚,要不回去就交白卷。
We must find out exactly how things stand here, or we'll have nothing to report. 交白卷
这手工做不算很精细,但还看过去。
The workmanship is not too fine, but it's passable. 看得过去
他睡早起也早。
He goes to bed early and gets up early.
多做
talk much but do little
他长什么样,我早就忘没影儿了。
I've clean forgotten what he looked like.
她不但歌唱很好,而且国画也画很传神。 不但
版面要是做太花哨,就会显难看。 难看

Character Decomposition


[chì,fú]
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[dàn]
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[cùn]

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