Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

略: abbreviation, omission

Also: outline, shorten, capture, plunder

JLPT N211 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met

田 carries the meaning · 各 gives the sound

11 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

リャクryaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 略りゃくabbreviation, omission
  • 略語りゃくごabbreviation, acronym
  • 略字りゃくじabbreviation, simplified character
  • 略歴りゃくれきbrief personal record, short CV
  • 戦略せんりゃくstrategy, tactics
  • 策略さくりゃくscheme, tactic, stratagem, trick
  • 略すりゃくすabbreviate
  • 略奪するりゃくだつするloot, rob
  • 攻略するこうりゃくするcapture [v.t.]
  • 侵略するしんりゃくするinvade
  • 省略するしょうりゃくするomit, abbreviate, abridge

Also read ほぼ, はぶく, おかす, おさめる, はかりごと, はかる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)田 field (meaning) + 各 (sound)

To walk around a field (to outline it).

Source: Wiktionary, 略 (rev. 92201119), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Field (田) + each/every (各). To divide "each" part of the "fields" according to a specific plan—the essence of a "strategy" or an "abridged" summary of land.”
From the 田 rice paddy story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
田

Also built on rice paddy (田)

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各

Also built on each (各)

The 各 family reads カク (kaku); 略 is read リャク.

Also read リャク

1 kanji shares this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
略 abbreviation · 田 + 各
vs副 vice- · 畐 + 刂
略 has 田 + 各 where 副 has 畐 + 刂.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · lüè

Same form: 略 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
略 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
略 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lüè most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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