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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *約* | 約* | *約
to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise
HSK 3
appointment / engagement / date / CL: , 個|个 / to arrange to meet
HSK 4
to restrict / to limit to / to constrain / restriction / constraint
HSK 5
to agree on sth (after discussion) / to conclude a bargain / to arrange / to promise / to stipulate / to make an appointment / stipulated (time, amount, quality etc) / an arrangement / a deal / appointment / undertaking / commitment / understanding / engagement / stipulation
HSK 6
established by popular usage (idiom); common usage agreement / customary convention
HSK 7-9
Book of Jonah
Johannesburg, South Africa
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *約* | 約* | *約
to weigh in a balance or on a scale
Johnson or Johnston (name)
Jordan (country)
John (name) / Johan (name) / Johann (name)
approximate / rough
charter
Joshua (name)
Gospel according to St John
Joseph (name)
about / around / approximately
about / around / approximately / also written 約莫|约莫
to arrange an interview / an appointment (with the foreign ambassador)
(of a contract) binding (law)
York
Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
to agree on three laws (idiom) / three-point covenant / (fig.) preliminary agreement / basic rules
temporary law / provisional constitution
to invite sb to go along with oneself (to a meeting, on a trip etc)
divisor (of a number) / approximate number
to gather at an appointed place and time
Josiah or Yoshiyahu (649-609 BC), a king of Judah (Judaism)
Joseph (name)
Jordan River (in southwestern Asia)
to invite / to issue an invitation
John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner
John Hawkins (1532-1595), British seaman involved in sea war with Spain / Johns Hopkins (1795-1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist
contract / oath of allegiance
Gjøvik (city in Oppland, Norway)
Jonah
promise / one's word / pledge / abbreviation
reduced fraction (e.g. one half for three sixths) / to reduce a fraction by canceling common factors in the numerator and denominator
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路歷程|天路历程
Book of Job (in the Old Testament)
(slang) to hook up for a one night stand / booty call
Third epistle of St John
John Rabe (1882-1950), German who helped protect Chinese during the Nanking massacre period
Second epistle of St John
approximately equal to
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) Are you interested? (originally an invitation for casual sex, later generalized as a playful or humorous invitation for any activity)
Jotham (son of Uzziah)
Book of Joshua
Job (name) / Book of Job in the Old Testament
to bind / to restrict / to constrain
Yorkshire (English region)
Jehoshaphat, fourth king of Judah (Judaism)
partner for dating / a date (boyfriend or girlfriend)
Ark of the Covenant
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator
approximate estimate / to reckon roughly
First epistle of St John
First epistle of St John / also written 約翰一書|约翰一书
variant of 約旦|约旦
to arrange to go on a date with sb
approximately / about (some numerical value)
iota (Greek letter Ιι)
committed information rate (Frame Relay); CIR
restrictive condition / constraint
Jurgen (name)
Book of Joel
cash equivalent (accountancy)
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
John Paul (name) / Pope John Paul II, Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920-2005), Pope 1978-2005
Second epistle of St John / also written 約翰二書|约翰二书
to calculate to be roughly ...


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