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略

略

See also: 畧

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 略

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 略
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (各) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
髂 *kʰraːɡs
路 *ɡ·raːɡs
輅 *ɡ·raːɡs
賂 *ɡ·raːɡs
虂 *ɡ·raːɡs
露 *ɡ·raːɡs
潞 *raːɡs
鷺 *raːɡs
璐 *raːɡs
簬 *raːɡs
簵 *ɡ·raːɡs
洛 *ɡ·raːɡ
駱 *ɡ·raːɡ
絡 *ɡ·raːɡ
酪 *ɡ·raːɡ
烙 *ɡ·raːɡ
雒 *ɡ·raːɡ
珞 *ɡ·raːɡ
硌 *ɡ·raːɡ
袼 *ɡ·raːɡ, *klaːɡ
笿 *ɡ·raːɡ
鉻 *ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
鮥 *ɡ·raːɡ
鵅 *ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
挌 *ɡ·raːɡ, *kraːɡ
落 *ɡ·raːɡ
各 *klaːɡ
胳 *klaːɡ
閣 *klaːɡ
格 *klaːɡ, *kraːɡ
擱 *klaːɡ
恪 *kʰlaːɡ
愙 *kʰaːɡ
貉 *ɡlaːɡ, *mɡraːɡ
狢 *ɡlaːɡ
佫 *ɡlaːɡ
略 *ɡ·raɡ
茖 *kraːɡ
骼 *kraːɡ
觡 *kraːɡ
蛒 *kraːɡ
敋 *kraːɡ
客 *kʰraːɡ
喀 *kʰraːɡ
揢 *kʰraːɡ
額 *ŋɡraːɡ
峉 *ŋɡraːɡ
頟 *ŋɡraːɡ
詻 *ŋɡraːɡ
垎 *ɡraːɡ
楁 *ɡraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·raɡ) : semantic 田 ‎(“field”) + phonetic 各 ‎(OC *klaːɡ) – to walk around a field (to outline it).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 略
Mandarin Beijing /lyɛ⁵¹/
Harbin /liau⁵³/
/lyɛ⁵³/
Tianjin /lye⁵³/
Jinan /luə²¹/
Qingdao /lyə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /lyo²⁴/
Xi'an /luo⁵³/
Xining /lyu⁵³/
Yinchuan /lye¹³/
Lanzhou /lyə¹³/
Ürümqi /lyɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /nio²¹³/
Chengdu /nyo³¹/
Guiyang /nio²¹/
Kunming /lio³¹/
Nanjing /loʔ⁵/
Hefei /lyɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /lyəʔ²/
Pingyao /liʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /liaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /liaʔ¹/
Suzhou /liɑʔ³/
Hangzhou /liɑʔ²/
Wenzhou /liɛ²¹³/
Hui Shexian /liɔ²²/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /lio²⁴/
Xiangtan /nio²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /liɔʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /liok̚⁵/
Taoyuan /liok̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /lœk̚²/
Nanning /lœk̚²²/
Hong Kong /lœk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /liɔk̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /luoʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /liɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /liak̚⁵/
/lioʔ⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /liɔk̚³/
/lio³³/
Rime
Character 略
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 藥 (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 離灼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /lɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /liɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /liɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lɨak̚/
Li
Rong		 /liak̚/
Wang
Li		 /lĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lüè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 略
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lüè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ljak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ak/
English draw a boundary; outline

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 略
Reading # 1/1
No. 3892
Phonetic
component		 各
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 略
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡ·raɡ/

Definitions

略

  1. plan; strategy; summary; outline
  2. brief; abbreviated
  3. to omit; to leave out
  4. slightly; marginally
  5. approximately; roughly
  6. to plunder; to pillage

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

略

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

略 ‎(hiragana りゃく, romaji ryaku)

  1. abbreviation

Alternative forms

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

略 (lược, trước)

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