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


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