略

Stroke order

Japan

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

• 㑼, 㨼, 䌎, 𧐣, 𨎟, 𧐯, 𪅅, 𧕌, 𰔡

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

• Unihan data for U+F976

Historical forms of the character 略
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

"to plunder, to pillage"

Possibly Sino-Tibetan (Schuessler, 2007). Compare Mizo rawk (“to loot, to raid (not to kill)”). STEDT provisionally sets up Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔ-m-(p)rawk, which is likely an allofam of Proto-Kuki-Chin *m-ru:k "to steal".

掠 (lüè) is a graphic variant of this sense.

"sharp"

"From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/b)rak (“to cut, tear, maul, lacerate”). Cognate with Burmese မြက် (mrak, “to cut keenly”) and မြ (mra., “sharp”), Jingpho mya (“torn, ragged”), Dimasa (džə brau, “to scratch, maul, claw”), Drung pra (“to cut (with sharp instruments)”).

"to trace out; to measure (an area); to plan; plan, method; boundary, frontier"

Possible allofams are 慮 (OC *ras, “outline, sketch”) and possibly 量 (OC *raŋ, *raŋs, “to measure (v.), a measure (n.)”)

"outline, sketch, strategy, summary, brief"

Possibly same etymon as sense "to trace out, to plan". Possibly cognate with 路 (OC *ɡ·raːɡs, “road”)

"to omit, to leave out"

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

略

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to draw boundaries; to outline; to trace out
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) boundary; outline; border
3. plan; strategy; summary; outline
4. brief; abbreviated
5. to omit; to leave out
6. slightly; marginally
7. approximately; roughly
8. to plunder; to pillage
9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) sharp; keen (Shi)

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. plan, strategy
2. to omit
3. to abbreviate
4. to invade

• Go-on: らく (raku)
• Kan-on: りゃく (ryaku, Jōyō)
• Kun: おさめる (osameru, 略める)、はかる (hakaru, 略る)、はかりごと (hakarigoto, 略)

• (Tokyo) りゃく (Odaka – )
• (Tokyo) りゃく (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

略(りゃく) • (ryaku) 

1. omission

   以下(いか)略(りゃく)

   ikaryaku

   as above

2. abbreviation; short for

   特(とっ)急(きゅう)は特(とく)別(べつ)急(きゅう)行(こう)の略(りゃく)。

   Tokkyū wa tokubetsukyūkō no ryaku.

   Tokkyū is the abbreviation of tokubetsukyūkō.

略 (eumhun 간략할 략 (gallyakhal ryak), word-initial (South Korea) 간략할 약 (gallyakhal yak))

1. hanja form^? of 략/약 (“brief, concise”)

略 (eumhun 다스릴 략 (daseuril ryak), word-initial (South Korea) 다스릴 약 (daseuril yak))

1. hanja form^? of 략/약 (“approximately, roughly”)
2. hanja form^? of 략/약 (“outline”)

略: Hán Nôm readings: lược, trước

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