brief; sketchy / outline; summary / to omit / (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly / plan; strategy / to capture (territory)

= + : Loki (lü) wants to play a prank on the elevator's visitors. In the bathroom (e4) he plants a field (田) of stars (各) around the toilet. His plan (略) is that the visitors will then have to step on many spiky stars if they want to reach the toilet.
variant of 略[lüe4]

略 character breakdown

each / every

= + : Mnemonic symbol: each and every (各) one of us is made of atoms, of which most were created in a star (from lighter atoms). That's why I choose to represent this character by a star. Guy Fawkes (g) is stepping on a mandarin (口) with high heels (夂) in the bathroom of the elevator (e4). As he squeezes, the mandarin suddenly explodes in a rain of stars (各). Each and every (各) one of them is shining brighter than the others.
field / farm / CL:片[pian4]

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) wants to plant a field (田) of crosses (十) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). She ordered an enclosure (囗) full of crosses (十) and puts them up one by one.

Characters with 略 as component

略 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 略

a little bit / slightly
to know just a little; to have a rough idea
to read cursorily / to skim through
Lüeyang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中[Han4 zhong1], Shaanxi
Lüeyang County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中[Han4 zhong1], Shaanxi
semiliterate / only knows words of one syllable / lit. to know only 之[zhi1] and 無|无[wu2]
some cases picked out as example / to highlight
to overlook past faults (idiom); to forgive and forget
to pass over / to skip
a brief explanation / to summarize
lit. to glimpse just one spot (of the leopard) (idiom) / fig. to get an inkling of the whole picture

Sentences with 略

略 currently does not appear in any sentence.