"Approximately" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 左右 | zuǒ yòu | left and right / nearby / approximately / attendant / to control / to influence |   |
| 大约 | dà yuē | approximately / probably | |
| 大致 | dà zhì | more or less / roughly / approximately | |
| 来 |  lái | to come / (used as a substitute for a more specific verb) / hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker, as in 回來|回来[hui2lai5]) / ever since (as in 自古以來|自古以来[zi4gu3 yi3lai2]) / for the past (amount of time) / (prefix) the coming ... / the next ... (as in 來世|来世[lai2shi4]) / (between two verbs) in order to / (after a round number) approximately / (used after 得[de2] to indicate possibility, as in 談得來|谈得来[tan2de5lai2], or after 不[bu4] to indicate impossibility, as in 吃不來|吃不来[chi1bu5lai2]) | |
| 近 | jìn | near / close to / approximately | |
| 内外 | nèi wài | inside and outside / domestic and foreign / approximately / about | |
| 约合 | yuē hé | approximately / about (some numerical value) | |
| 约莫 | yuē mo | about / around / approximately | |
| 约摸 | yuē mo | about / around / approximately / also written 約莫|约莫 | |
| 约 | yuē | to make an appointment / to invite / approximately / pact / treaty / to economize / to restrict / to reduce (a fraction) / concise | |
| 较略 | jiào lu:è | approximately / roughly / about | |
| 约等于 | yuē děng yú | approximately equal to | |
| 兆字节 | zhào zì jié | megabyte (2^20 or approximately a million bytes) | |
| 吉字节 | jí zì jié | gigabyte (2^30 or approximately a billion bytes) | |
| 普朗克常数 | Pǔ lǎng kè cháng shù | (physics) Planck's constant h, approximately 6.626 x 10⁻³⁴ / joule.seconds | |
| 电子伏 | diàn zǐ fú | electron volt (unit of energy used in particle physics, approximately 10⁻¹⁹ / joules) | |
| 打call | dǎ c a l l | (slang) to cheer sb on / to show one's support / ("call" is pronounced approximately like English "call") | |
