必
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certainly; must; will; necessarily
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 心 +1
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 必
- Common rank
- #1,016
- Unicode
- U+5FC5
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Formation & memory
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How 必 is formed
How to remember it
certainly · Heisig RSH #583
心 heart
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 必
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大难不死，必有后福 | one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb) | |
| 车到山前必有路 | lit. when we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through (idiom); fig. everything will … | |
| 车到山前必有路，船到桥头自然直 | (idiom) everything will turn out all right; let's worry about it when it happens; it will … | |
| 大可不必 | need not; unnecessary | |
| 有所得必有所失 | there is no gain without a loss (idiom); there is no such thing as a free meal | |
| 二虎相斗，必有一伤 | see 兩虎相爭，必有一傷|两虎相争，必有一伤[liang3 hu3 xiang1 zheng1 , bi4 you3 yi1 shang1] | |
| 自不必说 | (idiom) needless to say; it goes without saying | |
| 必经之路 | (idiom) the road one must follow; the only way | |
| 三人行，必有我师 | lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)… | |
| 两虎相斗，必有一伤 | see 兩虎相爭，必有一傷|两虎相争，必有一伤[liang3 hu3 xiang1 zheng1 , bi4 you3 yi1 shang1] | |
| 两虎相争，必有一伤 | (lit.) if two tigers fight, one will get injured (idiom); (fig.) if you start a war, someo… | |
| 必然王国 | realm of necessity (philosophy) | |
| 积阴德必有阳报 | (saying) doing good deeds in secret will eventually bring rewards | |
| 言多必失 | if you say too much, you're bound to slip up at some point (idiom) | |
| 言必信，行必果 | one must be a man of his word and resolute in his work (proverb) | |
| 工欲善其事，必先利其器 | To do a good job, an artisan needs the best tools (idiom). Good tools are prerequisite to … | |
| 苏必利尔湖 | Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖[Wu3 da4 hu2] | |
| 三人行，则必有我师 | If three walk together, one of them can teach me sth (Confucius) | |
| 有其父必有其子 | like father, like son (idiom) | |
| 有其师，必有其徒 | As the teacher, so the pupil. (idiom) |
Sound family
These characters use 必 as their sound component — compare how they read.