略

Meaning

略 centers on reducing something to its essential form: abbreviating, omitting details, or giving an outline. The meanings of capturing and plundering extend from the idea of taking only the most valuable part, leaving the rest behind.

• 戦略せんりゃく

  strategy; tactics

• 攻略こうりゃく

  capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); conquest; attack; assault

• 略りゃく
  N1

  abbreviation; omission

• 侵略しんりゃく
  N1

  invasion (e.g. of a country); raid; aggression

• 省略しょうりゃく
  N3

  omission; leaving out

• 略すりゃくす
  N2

  to abbreviate; to abridge; to shorten

• 略奪りゃくだつ
  N1

  pillage; plunder; looting; robbery

• 中略ちゅうりゃく

  omission (of middle part of a text); ellipsis

• 略称りゃくしょう

  abbreviation

• 策略さくりゃく
  N1

  stratagem; artifice; trick; ruse; scheme; tactics

• 簡略かんりゃく
  N1

  simple; brief

• 概略がいりゃく
  N1

  outline; summary; gist; in brief

• 謀略ぼうりゃく

  scheme; plot; artifice; stratagem; trick

• 略語りゃくご
  N1

  abbreviation; acronym

• 計略けいりゃく

  plan; scheme; stratagem; trick; trap; plot

• 略式りゃくしき

  informal; simplified

• 前略ぜんりゃく

  dispensing with the preliminaries ...

• 政略せいりゃく

  politics; political manoeuvre; political maneuver

• 略歴りゃくれき

  brief personal record; short curriculum vitae; short CV

• 知略ちりゃく

  (great mental) resources; quick brain; resourcefulness; good wits

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