略

See also: 畧

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 田 (“field”) + 各 – to walk around a field (to outline it).

Han character

略 (radical 102 田+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田竹水口 (WHER), four-corner 6706₄, composition ⿰田各)

1. approximately, roughly
2. outline

References

• KangXi: page 762, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21839
• Dae Jaweon: page 1172, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2541, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7565

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Cantonese

Hanzi

略 (Yale leuk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

略

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: りゃく (ryaku)
• Kun: おさめる (osameru), はかる (hakaru), はかりごと (hakarigoto)

Compounds

• 侵略
• 奪略
• 略奪

Noun

略 (hiragana りゃく, romaji ryaku)

1. abbreviation

Alternative forms

• 掠

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Korean

Hanja

略 (hangeul 략>약 (ryak>yak), revised ryak>yak, McCune-Reischauer ryak>yak, Yale lyak>yak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

略 (Pinyin lüè (lüe4), Wade-Giles lüeh⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

略 (lược, trước)