省略 shěnglüè▶ elipsis

Stroke order

省略 is written in 20 strokes across 2 characters.

• 省 — 9 strokes
• 略 — 11 strokes

Senses

1. to leave out
2. an omission

Related words

• 节省guardar
• 省provincia
• 侵略agresión
• 忽略ignorar
• 战略estrategia
• 省会capital provincial

省略 is pronounced shěnglüè and means “elipsis”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 省略 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.