"Approximately" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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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")
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