略

lüè
noun HSK 7-9 #7,675

Meanings

  1. 1 brief; outline; summary
  2. 2 strategy; plan
  3. 3 slightly; somewhat

Examples

HSK 3
Wǒmen xūyào yígè xīn zhànlüè.
We need a new strategy.
HSK 5
Qǐng jiǎnlüè de shuō yíxià.
Please explain briefly.
HSK 7-9
Tā lüèzhīyī'èr.
He knows a thing or two about it.

Tips

usage
战略 = strategy, 省略 = to omit, 大略 = roughly/approximately.

Components

radical
田 tián
field; cultivated land
Left-side field radical - pictograph of farmland divided by paths, the indexing component. Originally 略 meant 'to survey land, map out fields,' from which came 'plan, strategy' and 'outline, summary.' The field is what gets surveyed and partitioned. Same radical anchors 男 man, 界 boundary, 留 to stay.
phonetic
各 gè
each; every (here phonetic)
Right 各 supplies the sound - gè shifts to lüè through a well-attested k/l alternation in this phonetic family. Same phonetic gives 落 luò to fall, 路 lù road, 客 kè guest. Don't read 'each' into the meaning; the link is purely auditory and rooted in Old Chinese reconstruction.

Stroke Order

略 lüè