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掠

lüè

HSK 6 Character

What 掠 means

1. to take over by force
2. to rob
3. to plunder
4. to brush over
5. to skim
6. to sweep

Example sentences

• 乌云正掠过这座城市。
  Wūyún zhèng lüèguò zhè zuò chéngshì.
  Black clouds were passing above the city.

Words starting with 掠

• 掠夺lüè duóto plunder; to rob
• 掠过lüè guòto flit across; to sweep past; to glance (strike at an angle)
• 掠取lüè qǔto plunder; to pillage; to loot
• 掠美lüè měito claim credit due to others
• 掠卖lüè màito press-gang sb and sell into slavery
• 掠食lüè shíto prey on; predation; predatory
• 掠夺者lüè duó zhěrobber; plunderer; predator

Words containing 掠

• 劫掠jié lüèto loot; to plunder
• 抢掠qiǎng lüèto loot; looting
• 擦掠cā lüèto brush against; to graze; to scratch
• 私掠sī lüèto privateer
• 飞掠fēi lüèto fly past; to sweep past (at close range); (of a spacecraft) to do a flyby…
• 前掠翼qián lüè yìswept-forward wing (on jet fighter)
• 拷掠kǎo lüèto torture
• 浮光掠影fú guāng lüè yǐngflickering light and passing shadows (idiom); blurred scenery; cursory
• 掳掠lǔ lüèto plunder; to pillage; (fig.) to win (people's hearts)
• 笞掠chī lüèto flog

Characters that look like 掠

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 描miáoto depict; to trace (a drawing); to copy
• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem
• 捏niēto hold between the thumb and fingers; to pinch; to mold (using the fingers)
• 掳lǔ(bound form) to capture (sb)
• 舷xiánside of a ship or an aircraft
• 捱áivariant of 挨

Sounds the same

Read lüè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 略brief; sketchy; outline; summary; to omit
• 圙used in 圐圙
• 㧰(old) to beat; to pound
• 锊(ancient unit of weight)