Kanji1 / 9
約 kanji
promise, approximately, shrink
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ヤク
Kun readings
つづまるつづめるつづまやか
Words with 約
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —売約sales contract
- —約数divisor; factor; measure
- —約定agreement; stipulation; contract
- —約分reduction (of a fraction to its lowest terms)
- —背約a broken promise; breaking one's word
- —黙約tacit agreement; default
- —約手promissory note
- —約言summary; contraction; verbal agreement
- —約諾agreement; promise
- —約物punctuation marks and other special symbols
- —被約reduced
- —約因consideration (in contract law, the thing given or done by the promisee in exchange for the promise)
- —約音contraction (in phonetics)
- —通約reduction (of a fraction to its lowest terms)
- —諾約consent to an application for a contract
- —計約approximate total (of)
- —和約peace settlement
- —約転contraction (in phonetics)
- —可約reducible (e.g. fraction, polynomial)
- —違約金penalty for contract breach; forfeit