lüè
noun HSK 7-9 #7,675

Meanings

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

Examples

Qǐng jiǎnlüè de shuō yīxià.
Please explain briefly.
Wǒmen xūyào yīgè xīn zhànlüè.
We need a new strategy.
Tā lüèzhīyī'èr.
He knows a thing or two about it.

Tips

usage
战略 (zhànlüè) = strategy, 省略 (shěnglüè) = to omit, (dàlüè) = roughly/approximately.

Components

radical
tián
field; cultivated land
Left-side field radical — pictograph of farmland divided by paths, the indexing component. Originally 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 man, boundary, to stay.
phonetic
each; every (here phonetic)
Right supplies the sound — gè shifts to lüè through a well-attested k/l alternation in this phonetic family. Same phonetic gives luò to fall, lù road, kè guest. Don't read 'each' into the meaning; the link is purely auditory and rooted in Old Chinese reconstruction.

Stroke Order

lüè