必

Pinyin: bì

must; necessarily; certainly; (literary) if

Example sentence

有起必有落。

Yǒu qǐ bì yǒu luò.

What goes up must come down.

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What 必 means

必 (bì) is a Chinese word meaning “must; necessarily; certainly; (literary) if”. It appears in the HSK 5 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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