略 Kanji – abbreviation
The Japanese kanji 略 can mean abbreviation, omission, outline, shorten, capture, plunder.
Meaning and Readings
How is 略 read?
略 has the onyomi reading リャク and the kunyomi readings ほぼ, はぶく, おかす, おさめる, はかりごと, はかる.
In romaji, these readings can be written as ryaku, hobo, habuku, okasu, osameru, hakarigoto, hakaru.
Common Japanese Words Using 略
These common Japanese words contain 略. Select linked kanji to explore their meanings and readings.
- 概略（がいりゃく） — outline, summary, gist, in brief
- 簡略（かんりゃく） — simple, brief
- 攻略（こうりゃく） — capture (of enemy territory), taking (by storm), conquest, attack, assault
- 策略（さくりゃく） — stratagem, artifice, trick, ruse, scheme, tactics
- 省略（しょうりゃく） — omission, leaving out
- 戦略（せんりゃく） — strategy, tactics
- 前略（ぜんりゃく） — dispensing with the preliminaries ...
- 中略（ちゅうりゃく） — omission (of middle part of a text), ellipsis
- 謀略（ぼうりゃく） — scheme, plot, artifice, stratagem, trick
- 略（ほぼ） — almost, roughly, approximately, about, around