节约 jiéyuē▶ guardar

Stroke order

节约 is written in 11 strokes across 2 characters.

• 节 — 5 strokes
• 约 — 6 strokes

Senses

1. to economize
2. to conserve (resources)
3. economy
4. frugal

Example sentences

• 我们要节约用水。Wǒmen yào jiéyuē yòng shuǐ.We must save water.
• 节约时间很重要。Jiéyuē shíjiān hěn zhòngyào.Saving time is very important.

Related words

• 节sección, festival
• 大约sobre; acerca de
• 约会Fecha; Cita
• 季节Estación; temporada; sazonar
• 细节detalles
• 节日festival, fiesta

节约 is pronounced jiéyuē and means “guardar”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 节约 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.