略

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

• 撂, 㨼, 𰔡

• KangXi: 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, 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 [script needed] (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. ^† to draw boundaries; to outline; to trace out
2. ^† 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. ^† sharp; keen (Shi)

(grade 5 “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)

• 略(りゃく)字(じ) (ryakuji, “colloquial/ simplified form of kanji”)
• 概(がい)略(りゃく) (gairyaku, “outline”)
• 攻(こう)略(りゃく) (kōryaku, “capture”)
• 忽(こつ)略(りゃく) (kotsuryaku, “neglect”)
• 省(しょう)略(りゃく) (shōryaku, “omission”)
• 侵(しん)略(りゃく) (shinryaku, “invasion”)
• 略(りゃく)称(しょう) (ryakushō, “abbreviation”)
• 略(りゃく)図(ず) (ryakuzu, “brief illustration”)
• 略(りゃく)奪(だつ) (ryakudatsu, “rob”)

• (Tokyo) りゃく​ [ryàkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[1]
• (Tokyo) りゃ​く [ryáꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ɾʲa̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

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), South Korea 간략할 약 (gallyakhal yak))

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

略 (eumhun 다스릴 략 (daseuril ryak), 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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