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省略

shěnglüè

to omit; to abridge

A person points to a document with sections left out
Memory picture

Characters in this word

省 shěng

Strokes
9
Radical
目 — eye
Made of
少 few, little 目 eye
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

略 lüè

Strokes
11
Radical
田 — field, farm, arable land
Made of
田 field, farm, arable land 各 individual
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 报告为了突出结论,省略了许多技术细节。 Bàogào wèile tūchū jiélùn, shěnglüè le xǔduō jìshù xìjié. To emphasise the conclusion, the report omitted many technical details.
  • 为了简洁,这篇文章省略了很多次要内容。 Wèile jiǎnjié, zhè piān wénzhāng shěnglüè le hěn duō cìyào nèiróng. For the sake of brevity, this article leaves out a lot of secondary content.
  • 报告省略了关键数据,大家看了都不满意。 Bàogào shěnglüè le guānjiàn shùjù, dàjiā kàn le dōu bù mǎnyì. The report left out key figures, and everyone who read it was dissatisfied.

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