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

kǎolǜ

Traditional: 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zǎi细xì。

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.