(kǎo lǜ) - to consider, to think over in Mandarin
kǎolǜTraditional: 考慮
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)
Stroke order
考
虑
Examples
。
I'll consider your suggestion.
仔细。
Please consider carefully.
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He's still considering this job.
。
Please reconsider my proposal.
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We need to take cost into account.
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