绰 (chuò): (bound form) ample, spacious, (literary) graceful, to grab, to snatch up
绰 (chuò) is a Chinese character meaning “(bound form) ample.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 纟 (semantic) and 卓 (phonetic). It ranks #2708 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 绰 silk. Its radical form 纟 (silk) appears in many related characters such as 系 (xì, to connect), 累 (lèi, tired), 绍 (shào, to continue).
Definitions
- (bound form) ample
- spacious
- (literary) graceful
- to grab
- to snatch up
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 绰号noun | chuò hào | nickname |
| 绰绰有余phrase | chuò chuò yǒu yú | (idiom) more than enough |
| 阔绰adjective | kuò chuò | extravagant |
| 绰约adjective | chuò yuē | (literary) graceful |
| 宽绰adjective | kuān chuo | spacious |
| 风姿绰约 | fēng zī chuò yuē | (idiom) graceful |
| 绰名noun | chuò míng | nickname |
| 隐隐绰绰 | yǐn yǐn chuò chuò | faint |
绰 appears in 8 compound words: 50 as the first character, 25 as the last, and 25 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 绰 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
绰字在日常生活中使用频率较低。
chāo zì zài rì cháng shēng huó zhōng shǐ yòng pín lǜ jiào dī .
The character "绰" is not commonly used in everyday life.
这样买一个 8 光口的万兆交换机绰绰有余,然后按需购买万兆光转电模块直连。
zhè yàng mǎi yī gè 8 guāng kǒu de wàn zhào jiāo huàn jī chāo chāo yǒu yú , rán hòu àn xū gòu mǎi wàn zhào guāng zhuǎn diàn mó kuài zhí lián .
In that case, purchasing an 8-port 10-Gigabit switch will be more than enough, and you can then buy 10-Gigabit fiber-to-Ethernet adapters as needed for direct connections.
用来做不同颜色的标记,覆盖基本的办公需求绰绰有余。
yòng lái zuò bù tóng yán sè de biāo jì , fù gài jī běn de bàn gōng xū qiú chāo chāo yǒu yú .
It can be used to make markings in different colors and more than adequately meets basic office needs.
零钱袋比我想象中的大,我把手头上共计将近 2000 日元的硬币全部放进去都绰绰有余。
líng qián dài bǐ wǒ xiǎng xiàng zhōng de dà , wǒ bǎ shǒu tóu shàng gòng jì jiāng jìn 2 0 0 0 rì yuán de yìng bì quán bù fàng jìn qù dōu chāo chāo yǒu yú .
The coin pouch was bigger than I expected; I had more than enough room to fit all the coins I had on hand—a total of nearly 2,000 yen.
这种配置自然算不上高端游戏 PC,但运行大部分现代游戏绰绰有余。
zhè zhǒng pèi zhì zì rán suàn bù shàng gāo duān yóu xì P C , dàn yùn háng dà bù fēn xiàn dài yóu xì chāo chāo yǒu yú .
This setup certainly isn't a high-end gaming PC, but it's more than capable of running most modern games.
话虽这么说,驱动参数量不大的本地小模型,做一些 AI 推理任务,还是绰绰有余的。
huà suī zhè má shuō , qū dòng cān shǔ liàng bù dà de běn dì xiǎo mó xíng , zuò yī xiē A I tuī lǐ rèn wù , hái shì chāo chāo yǒu yú de .
That said, it’s still more than capable of handling AI inference tasks when running small, local models with a limited number of parameters.
我的剑虽然是钝的,但应付你的话是绰绰有余的。
Wǒ de jiàn suīrán shì dùn de, dàn yìngfu nǐ dehuà shì chuòchuòyǒuyú de.
My sword may be blunt, but that's more than enough for someone like you.
Character Family
Homophones — Characters pronounced chuò
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