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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *约* | 约* | *约
to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise
HSK 3
appointment / engagement / date / CL: , 個|个 / to arrange to meet
HSK 4
to restrict / to limit to / to constrain / restriction / constraint
HSK 5
to agree on sth (after discussion) / to conclude a bargain / to arrange / to promise / to stipulate / to make an appointment / stipulated (time, amount, quality etc) / an arrangement / a deal / appointment / undertaking / commitment / understanding / engagement / stipulation
HSK 6
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement / customary convention
HSK 7-9
Johannesburg, South Africa
Josiah or Yoshiyahu (649-609 BC), a king of Judah (Judaism)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *约* | 约* | *约
to weigh in a balance or on a scale
John (name) / Johan (name) / Johann (name)
approximately / about (some numerical value)
York
Johnson or Johnston (name)
Jordan (country)
to arrange an interview / an appointment (with the foreign ambassador)
to invite / to issue an invitation
Joseph (name)
Joshua (name)
Joseph (name)
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain / Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist
temporary law / provisional constitution
Yorkshire (English region)
Jonah
reduced fraction (e.g. one half for three sixths) / to reduce a fraction by canceling common factors in the numerator and denominator
approximate / rough
to calculate to be roughly ...
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
to gather at an appointed place and time
promise / one's word / pledge / abbreviation
Job (name) / Book of Job in the Old Testament
Jurgen (name)
Gospel according to St John
variant of 約莫|约莫
to estimate; to guess / about; around; approximately
to arrange to go on a date with sb
(slang) to hook up for a one night stand / booty call
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) Are you interested? (originally an invitation for casual sex, later generalized as a playful or humorous invitation for any activity)
charter
to bind / to restrict / to constrain
First epistle of St John
to invite sb to go along with oneself (to a meeting, on a trip etc)
John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner
restrictive condition / constraint
Ark of the Covenant
Book of Joshua
contract / oath of allegiance
iota (Greek letter Ιι)
Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
Jotham (son of Uzziah)
variant of 約旦|约旦
Third epistle of St John
Book of Jonah
(of a contract) binding (law)
partner for dating / a date (boyfriend or girlfriend)
cash equivalent (accountancy)
John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
Book of Job (in the Old Testament)
Gjøvik (city in Oppland, Norway)
committed information rate (Frame Relay); CIR
divisor (of a number) / approximate number
Jordan River (in southwestern Asia)
Jehoshaphat, fourth king of Judah (Judaism)
to agree on three laws (idiom) / three-point covenant / (fig.) preliminary agreement / basic rules
Book of Joel
approximate estimate / to reckon roughly
approximately equal to
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Second epistle of St John
John Paul (name) / Pope John Paul II, Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920-2005), Pope 1978-2005
First epistle of St John / also written 約翰一書|约翰一书
Second epistle of St John / also written 約翰二書|约翰二书


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