掠 (lüè): to take over by force, to rob, to plunder
掠 (lüè) is a Chinese character meaning “to take over by force.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 京 (phonetic). It ranks #1849 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 掠 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to take over by force
- to rob
- to plunder
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 掠夺 | lüè duó | to plunder |
| 掠过verb | lüè guò | to flit across |
| 抢掠verb | qiǎng lüè | to loot |
| 劫掠verb | jié lüè | to loot |
| 掳掠verb | lǔ lüè | to plunder |
| 浮光掠影phrase | fú guāng lüè yǐng | flickering light and passing shadows (idiom) |
| 掠美 | lüè měi | to claim credit due to others |
| 掠夺者noun | lüè duó zhě | robber |
| 掠取verb | lüè qǔ | to plunder |
| 前掠翼 | qián lüè yì | swept-forward wing (on jet fighter) |
| 飞掠verb | fēi lüè | to fly past |
| 掠食 | lüè shí | to prey on |
| 掠卖 | lüè mài | to press-gang sb and sell into slavery |
| 私掠verb | sī lüè | to privateer |
| 擦掠 | cā lüè | to brush against |
掠 appears in 17 compound words: 41 as the first character, 47 as the last, and 12 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 掠 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
掠照镜子,整理一下自己的仪容。
lüè zhào jìng zǐ , zhěng lǐ yī xià zì jǐ de yí róng .
Glance in the mirror and tidy up your appearance.
接受采访的多位原创者均表示,诉求从来不是禁止AI发展,而是拒绝AI无偿掠夺原创。
jiē shòu cǎi fǎng de duō wèi yuán chuàng zhě jūn biǎo shì , sù qiú cóng lái bù shì jīn zhǐ A I fā zhǎn , ér shì jù jué A I wú cháng lüè duó yuán chuàng .
Several creators interviewed stated that their demand has never been to ban the development of AI, but rather to reject AI’s uncompensated exploitation of original works.
我坐在车后排摇下车窗,看着车飞驰向前,掠过苏州河,跨过上海火车站的铁轨。
wǒ zuò zài chē hòu pái yáo xià chē chuāng , kàn zhe chē fēi chí xiàng qián , lüè guò sū zhōu hé , kuà guò shàng hǎi huǒ chē zhàn de tiě guǐ .
I sat in the back seat of the car, rolled down the window, and watched as the car sped forward, skimming past the Suzhou River and crossing the railroad tracks at Shanghai Railway Station.
画面中, 一个圆形球体保持直线飞行,从一片疑似城市住宅区的上空掠过 。
huà miàn zhōng , yī gè yuán xíng qiú tǐ bǎo chí zhí xiàn fēi háng , cóng yī piàn yí sì chéng shì zhù zhái qū de shàng kōng lüè guò .
In the footage, a spherical object maintains a straight flight path as it flies over what appears to be an urban residential area.
如果可以随意抓取、“喂”给AI,相当于无偿掠夺创作者多年积累的智力成果。
rú guǒ kě yǐ suí yì zhuā qǔ , wéi gěi A I , xiāng dāng yú wú cháng lüè duó chuàng zuò zhě duō nián jī lěi de zhì lì chéng guǒ .
If content could be freely scraped and "fed" to AI, it would be tantamount to plundering—without compensation—the intellectual achievements that creators have accumulated over many years.
纳许维尔掠夺者队3比1挫西雅图海怪队 费斯伯格一球...
nà xǔ wéi ěr lüè duó zhě duì 3 bǐ 1 cuò xī yǎ tú hǎi guài duì fèi sī bó gé yī qiú . . .
The Nashville Predators defeated the Seattle Kraken 3-1; Feisberg scored one goal...
乌云正掠过这座城市。
Wūyún zhèng lüèguò zhè zuò chéngshì.
Black clouds were passing above the city.
Character Family
Homophones — Characters pronounced lüè
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