約 — Chinese character
約
yuē
treaty, covenant, agreement
- Pinyin
- yuē
- Radical
- 120 ⽷ (Silk)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 糹 勺
- Formation
- pictophonetic — thread; meaning component 糹
- Simplified
- 约
- Japanese
- 約 as a kanji
約 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 6 · Art of War 3 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 5 · Zhuangzi 15
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 27
- Analects 4.2
- Analects 4.23
- Analects 6.25
- Analects 7.25
- Analects 9.10
- Analects 12.15
- Art of War 6.15
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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