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HSK
approximately / probably
HSK 3
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *约* | 约* | *约
to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise
HSK 3
to economize / to conserve (resources) / economy / frugal
HSK 3
to sign a contract or agreement
HSK 5
to restrict / condition
HSK 5
booking / reservation / to book / to make an appointment
HSK 6
contract; agreement / CL:
HSK 6
agreement / contract
HSK 7-9
to break a promise / to violate an agreement / to default (on a loan or contract)
HSK 7-9
convention (i.e. international agreement)
HSK 7-9
to agree (on a meeting place, date etc) / to reach agreement / to make an appointment
HSK 7-9
vague; faint; indistinct
HSK 7-9
treaty / pact / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
to conclude a treaty
Shen Yue (441-513), writer and historian during Liang of Southern dynasties 南朝梁, compiler of History of Song of the Southern dynasties 宋書|宋书
sketchy / concise / abbreviated
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *约* | 约* | *约
to weigh in a balance or on a scale
secret appointment
Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
to invite / invitation
to restrict / to agree to a contract / offer; bid
New York
terms (of an agreement)
specially engaged / employed or commissioned for a special task
oath / vow / pledge / promise
to keep an appointment / to keep one's word
to break a promise / breach of contract
graceful and subdued (style)
intensive
lease
contract of alliance / oath or treaty between allies
to terminate an agreement / to cancel a contract
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (abbr. for 北大西洋公約組織|北大西洋公约组织)
to renew or extend a contract
to miss an appointment
(literary) graceful; charming
forward contract (finance)
(idiom) vaguely; faintly; indistinctly
Old Testament
former agreement / former contract
covenant
contract / written agreement
to keep an appointment
to miss an appointment
New Testament
entente / pact / agreement / negotiated settlement
to break a promise
to practice strict economy (idiom)
to conclude a treaty / to make an agreement / contract (at bridge)
Sampaio (name) / Jorge Sampaio (1939-), Portuguese lawyer and politician, president of Portugal 1996-2006 / Sampaio, town in Brazil
Warsaw Pact, Soviet-led military alliance (1955–1991) (abbr. for 華沙條約組織|华沙条约组织)
frugal; economical; thrifty
to keep a promise / to honor an agreement
engagement / wedding contract
bet / wager
(idiom) diligent and thrifty
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
book contract
peace treaty
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising
peace treaty
to keep a promise / to honor an agreement
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora / CITES
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia
futures contract (finance)
Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不平等條約|不平等条约 between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
takeover bid
Doctrine and Covenants
(idiom) graceful; lovely
to break an agreement / to go back on one's word / to fail to keep one's promise
movie contract
agreement between the residents of a , an administrative district under a city or town (Tw)
Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), concluding the First Sino-Japanese War 甲午戰爭|甲午战争
having no common measure / incommensurable / incommensurate
(term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
treaty of Tianjin of 1885 ceding Vietnam to France
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
to simplistically reduce (sth) to just ...; to regard (sth) as merely ...
UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)
commensurable / having a common measure
trade treaty (abbr. for 通商條約|通商条约) / to mutually agree (to do sth) (abbr. for 商量約定|商量约定)
the Camp David agreement of 1978 brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Israel and Egypt
Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
unequal treaty of 1898 whereby the Qing dynasty ceded the lease of Lüshun (Port Arthur) to Russia
to make a contract
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
contraction (in grammar) / abbreviation
(idiom) to live frugally

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