およそ

およそ · oyoso · JLPT N3 · adverb

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Sounds like oh, yo, so-so: a so-so figure, roughly right

Written 凡そ in kanji. 凡 means general or overall, so およそ gives the general figure rather than the exact one. It is a shorter form of おおよそ, which means the same thing. Example: およそ百人 = about a hundred people.

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