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只要

provided

Character Composition

Characters

Pinyin

zhi3yao4 • zhǐyào

Meaning

Primary

provided

Alternatives

if only, as long as

Mnemonic

If you begin a sentence with "只要 provided that", then what you mean is that you 只 only 要 want that one condition to be true for the rest of your proposition to be valid.

Usage

只要 你 有 錢

provided you have money

只要 你 在 這裡，我 就 放心 了。

As long as you're here, I'm not worried.