約
See also: 约
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Translingual
Han character
約 (radical 120, 糸+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女火心戈 (VFPI) or 女火心一 (VFPM), four-corner 27920, composition ⿰糹勺)
Derived characters
- 喲 (哟) 葯 (药) 箹
References
- KangXi: page 915, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27242
- Dae Jaweon: page 1343, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3364, character 15
- Unihan data for U+7D04
Chinese
| trad. | 約 | |
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| simp. | 约 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 約 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (勺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 豹 | *preːwɢs |
| 趵 | *preːwɢs, *preːwɢ |
| 尥 | *breːw, *b·reːwɢs |
| 箹 | *ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ |
| 杓 | *plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ |
| 約 | *ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ |
| 扚 | *pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ |
| 釣 | *pleːwɢs |
| 瘹 | *teːwɢs |
| 芍 | *ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ |
| 酌 | *pljewɢ |
| 灼 | *pljewɢ |
| 勺 | *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ |
| 彴 | *pljewɢ |
| 犳 | *pljewɢ |
| 妁 | *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ |
| 汋 | *bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ |
| 仢 | *bljewɢ |
| 葯 | *qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ |
| 礿 | *lewɢ |
| 肑 | *preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ |
| 瓝 | *breːwɢ |
| 的 | *pleːwɢ |
| 靮 | *pleːwɢ |
| 馰 | *pleːwɢ |
| 玓 | *pleːwɢ |
| 魡 | *pleːwɢ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ) : semantic 糸 (“rope”) + phonetic 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ).
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
約
- † to bundle up; to bind
- † rope; cord
- † to restrain; to limit; to keep under control
- to make an appointment; to arrange
- appointment; meeting; arrangement
- treaty; agreement; covenant; pact
- to invite or ask in advance
- 我想約你明天一起去吃飯，不知道你有沒有時間。 [MSC, trad.]
- Wǒ xiǎng yuē nǐ míngtiān yīqǐ qù chīfàn, bù zhīdào nǐ yǒu méiyǒu shíjiān. [Pinyin]
- I'd like to invite you out to have a meal tomorrow, if you have the time.
我想约你明天一起去吃饭，不知道你有没有时间。 [MSC, simp.]
- † to hinder; to block
- † to save; to economise
- † frugal; economical; thrifty
- † brief; concise; succinct
- † poor; humble; low-ranking
- (mathematics) to reduce (a fraction)
- † to prepare; to equip
- † to seek; to pursue
- † to estimate; to approximate; to reckon
- (colloquial) to weigh; to weigh on a balance or scale
- about; approximately
- 約220大卡 / 约220大卡 ― yuē 220 dàkǎ ― Approximately 220 kilocalories.
Compounds
Derived terms from 約
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Pronunciation 2
Definitions
約
- † Alternative form of 要 (yāo, “gist”).
Pronunciation 3
Definitions
約
- † cord for the string of a stringed instrument
Japanese
Kanji
約
(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)
- Approximately
Readings
- Go-on: やく (yaku, Jōyō); よう (yō)←えう (eu, historical)
- Kan-on: やく (yaku, Jōyō); よう (yō)←えう (eu, historical)
- Kun: つずまやか (tsuzumayaka, 約); つずめる (tsuzumeru, 約める)
Compounds
- 一約 (ichiyaku)
- 契約 (keiyaku): contract, agreement
- 条約 (jōyaku): treaty
- 予約 (yoyaku): reservation, appointment
| Kanji in this term |
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| 約 |
| やく Grade: 4 |
| on’yomi |
Pronunciation
- On’yomi
- (Tokyo) やく [yáꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
- IPA(key): [ja̠kɯ̟ᵝ]
Adverb
約 (hiragana やく, rōmaji yaku)
- about, approximately
- 約一ヶ月
- yaku ikkagetsu
- approximately one month
- 宇宙の直径は約９３０億光年だ。
- Uchū no chokkei wa yaku kyūhyakusanjū-oku kōnen da.
- The diameter of the universe is some 93 billion light years.
- 約一ヶ月
References
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
Korean
Hanja
約 • (yak, yo) (hangeul 약, 요, revised yak, yo, McCune–Reischauer yak, yo, Yale yak, yo)
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Vietnamese
Han character
約 (ước, yêu)
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