只要

Pinyin: zhǐyào

so long as; provided; if

🏮 Chinese HSK 3 conjunction

Example sentence

只要他写作业,他就能玩游戏了。

Zhǐyào tā xiě zuòyè, tā jiù néng wán yóuxì le.

He can play computer games as long as he does his homework.

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What 只要 means

只要 (zhǐyào) is a Chinese word meaning “so long as; provided; if”. It appears in the HSK 3 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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