Learn Chinese Characters

Meaning

plan; strategy; outline; summary; slightly; rather

Chinese: 简略、策略或稍微。

Hear the Four Tones

The same syllable “lue” becomes a different word in each tone. 略 is the 4th tone. Tap any tone to hear a native voice and see its pitch shape.

Stroke Order

Tap Animate to watch the strokes in order, or Practice to trace it yourself.

Common Words

  • 侵略qīn lüèto invade; invasion
  • 省略shěng lüèto leave out; an omission
  • 策略cè lüèstrategy; tactics; crafty; adroit
  • 战略zhàn lüèstrategy
  • 忽略hū lüèto neglect; to overlook; to ignore

Example Sentence

这篇文章我只是略读了一遍。Zhè piān wén zhāng wǒ zhǐ shì lüè dú le yí biàn.I only skimmed this article once.

Zhèthispiānsheet文章wén zhāngarticleI只是zhǐ shìmerely略读lüè dúto read cursorilyle(completed action)一遍yí biànone time (all the way thro