大略

大

dà

略

lüè

a broad outline / the general idea / roughly

Characters and words in 大略

大

dài = d + ai4

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

大

dà = d + a4

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

大 = 一 + 人 : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.

略

lüè = lü + e4

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

略 = 各 + 田 : 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.

略

畧

lüè = lü + e4

variant of 略[lüe4]