约
yuēTraditional: 约
#5077 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to arrange, appointment; approximately
Stroke order
约
Examples
。
John is my colleague.
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I'm going to New York next month.
。
I've got a date tonight.
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I have arranged to eat with a friend.
周。
He invited me to dinner next week.
约 (yuē) means to arrange or to make an appointment, and shows up in 约会 (a date). It also serves as a phonetic component in transliterations such as 约翰 (John) and 纽约 (New York).
Related words
Appears in 3 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 约.
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