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(kǎo lǜ) - to consider, to think over in Mandarin

kǎo

Traditional: 考慮

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HSK 4
#706 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to consider, to think over

Word origin

考虑 means to consider or think over. 考 (kǎo) means to examine or test, related in origin to 老 (old) and carrying the 耂 element. 虑 (lǜ) means to ponder, with the 心 'heart' radical under the phonetic 虍 (hū).

Origin
compound
Root
考 (kǎo, to examine) + 虑 (lǜ, to ponder)

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Examples

I'll consider your suggestion.

zǎi

Please consider carefully.

He's still considering this job.

Please reconsider my proposal.

We need to take cost into account.

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This word is part of lesson 15.