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strategy
HSK 6
strategy; tactics / crafty; adroit
HSK 6
to neglect; to overlook; to ignore
HSK 6
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *略* | 略* | *略
brief; sketchy / outline; summary / to omit / (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly / plan; strategy / to capture (territory)
HSK 7-9
to invade / invasion
HSK 7-9
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *略* | 略* | *略
variant of
HSK 7-9
to leave out / an omission
HSK 7-9
a little bit; slightly
HSK 7-9
to have a taste of / to realize / to appreciate
HSK 7-9
rough (not precise or accurate) / cursory
HSK 7-9
(literary) to storm and capture / strategy; directions; guide; how-to
to contract / to abbreviate / abbreviation
simple / brief
stratagem / strategy / resourcefulness
to be abbreviated to / (followed by a verb) slightly
(name) Elliott; Eliot
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist
Lüeyang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
to omit / to delete / to leave out / to neglect / to skip over
to pass over / to skip
roughly / outline / summary
to take cities and seize territories (idiom)
military strategy / military tactics / originally refers to military classics Six Secret Teachings 六韜|六韬 and Three Strategies 三略
sketch; sketch map; thumbnail picture
slightly
biographical sketch
a broad outline / the general idea / roughly
to read cursorily / to skim through
slightly better / a cut above
military strategy
great skill and strategy
(idiom) to know just a little; to have a rough idea
to have (an attribute) to a small degree; to have a touch of
slightly; roughly; briefly; very generally
ability and sagacity
biographical sketch
approximate / rough
to omit (less important details etc)
abbreviation
courage and resource
lit. to glimpse just one spot (of the leopard) (idiom) / fig. to get an inkling of the whole picture
abbreviation
a well-thought out long-term strategy
semiliterate / only knows words of one syllable / lit. to know only and 無|无
long-term strategy
abbreviation
thumbnail (computing)
concise / the details in brief
approximately / roughly / about
Story of Yanxi Palace (2018 TV series)
abbreviated character / simplified character
astute; resourceful
brave and cunning
Mallorca or Majorca (island of Spain)
abbreviated word / acronym
a strategist
"Three Strategies of Huang Shigong", one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China
ellipsis (punctuation)
Concise History of the Chinese Novel by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
Ontario province, Canada
strategic partner
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist
apostrophe
war of aggression
slight knowledge of sth / superficial acquaintance with a subject / a smattering
(idiom) unable to plan; inept at strategy
the hero has plans already laid (idiom); to have plans ready in advance / forewarned is forearmed
aggressors; invaders
Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖
negligence / to neglect inadvertently
Galileo, American robotic spacecraft launched to Jupiter in 1989, orbiting the planet 1995-2003
invading army
Julian day (astronomy)
two-pronged strategy
"Six Secret Strategic Teachings" 六韜|六韬 and "Three Strategies of Huang Shigong" 三略, two of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书, attributed to Jiang Ziya 姜子牙
geostrategic
(literary) outline; general idea; rough sketch
to disregard (sth seen as negligible) / to neglect (sth seen as insignificant)
strategic
strategic nuclear force
strategic nuclear weapon
strategic point
strategic bomber
strategic defense initiative (SDI)
variant of 掠奪|掠夺
code
some cases picked out as example / to highlight
to overlook past faults (idiom); to forgive and forget
a brief explanation / to summarize
Lüeyang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
abridged version
approximate estimate / to reckon roughly
abbreviated character
unrestrained / throwing off strictures / unrespectful / indulgence
lit. heroes usually agree (idiom); Great minds think alike.
analogy strategies


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