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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
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
Jurgen (name)
(of a contract) binding (law)
John (name) / Johan (name) / Johann (name)
Johannesburg, South Africa
to arrange a meeting for a formal talk (usu. by an authority with a subordinate); to summon for questioning or a warning
Josiah or Yoshiyahu (649-609 BC), a king of Judah (Judaism)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *约* | 约* | *约
to weigh in a balance or on a scale
approximately / about (some numerical value)
Jehoshaphat, fourth king of Judah (Judaism)
approximate / rough
temporary law / provisional constitution
Johnson or Johnston (name)
to arrange an interview / an appointment (with the foreign ambassador)
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
First epistle of St John / also written 約翰一書|约翰一书
Yorkshire (English region)
Jonah
charter
Jordan River (in southwestern Asia)
reduced fraction (e.g. one half for three sixths) / to reduce a fraction by canceling common factors in the numerator and denominator
to invite / to issue an invitation
to calculate to be roughly ...
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
to gather at an appointed place and time
Job (name) / Book of Job in the Old Testament
promise / one's word / pledge / abbreviation
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)
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
variant of 約旦|约旦
Jordan (country)
Third epistle of St John
Book of Jonah
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)
York
Jotham (son of Uzziah)
committed information rate (Frame Relay); CIR
divisor (of a number) / approximate number
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
Second epistle of St John / also written 約翰二書|约翰二书


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