要是 yàoshi
          
              yàoshi 
              
              conjunction 
              if 
              Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
              
                , Subdomain: Function Words 
              
              
                , Concept: Correlative 关联词
              
              
              
                Notes: This conjunction is often used as a connecting word in the subordinate clause of subordinate complex sentences (CC-CEDICT '要是'; Guoyu '要是')
              
               
          
          
Contained in
- 需要是发明之母(需要是發明之母) Necessity is the mother of invention (European proverb).
 
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 第二回 Chapter 100 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
 - 第二回 Chapter 32 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
 - 第二回 Chapter 6 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
 - 第二回 Chapter 24 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
 - 第二回 Chapter 31 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
 - 第二回 Chapter 28 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
 - 第五十四回 Chapter 54 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 2
 - 第二回 Chapter 117 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 2
 - 第二回 Chapter 94 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
 - 第二回 Chapter 76 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1