令
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to order; to command; an order; warrant; writ; to cause; to make sth happen; virtuous; honorific title; season; government position (old); type of short song or poem
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #573 U+4EE4
How 令 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A person kneeling before a master 人
How to remember it
orders · Heisig RSH #1113
meeting + chop
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 令 as their sound component
These characters all use 令 (lìng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 令 sound component | lìng | command, decree, order; magistrate; to allow, to cause |
| 领 | lǐng | neck, collar; lead, guide |
| 冷 | lěng | cold, cool; lonely |
| 零 | líng | zero; fragment, fraction |
| 岭 | lǐng | mountain ridge, mountain peak |
| 邻 | lín | neighbor; neighborhood |
| 龄 | líng | age; years |
| 铃 | líng | small bell |
| 怜 | lián | to pity, to sympathize with |
| 伶 | líng | clever; lonely, solitary |
| 玲 | líng | the tinkling of jewelry |
| 羚 | líng | a species of antelope |
| 鸰 | líng | lark, wagtail; Motacilla species (various) |
| 苓 | líng | fungus, tuber; licorice |
| 蛉 | líng | dragonfly, sandfly; Libellulidae |
| 呤 | lìng | purine |
| 囹 | líng | prison, enclosure |
| 拎 | līn | to lift, to haul, to take |
| 翎 | líng | plume, tail feathers |
Words containing 令
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白令海 | Bái lìng Hǎi | Bering Sea |
| 令人发指 | lìng rén fà zhǐ | (idiom) to make one feel a sense of revulsion; abhorrent; heinous; deeply disturbing |
| 军令如山 | jūn lìng rú shān | military orders are like mountains (idiom); a military order must be obeyed |
| 德令哈市 | Dé lìng hā Shì | Delingha, a county-level city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州… |
| 号令如山 | hào lìng rú shān | lit. order like a mountain; a military order is inviolable; strict discipline |
| 令人满意 | lìng rén mǎn yì | satisfying; satisfactory |
| 动员令 | dòng yuán lìng | mobilization order |
| 酒令儿 | jiǔ lìng r | erhua variant of 酒令[jiu3 ling4] |
| 语音指令 | yǔ yīn zhǐ lìng | speech command (for computer speech recognition) |
| 行酒令 | xíng jiǔ lìng | to play a drinking game |
| 令人 | lìng rén | to cause one (to do sth); to make one (angry, delighted etc) |
| 县令 | xiàn lìng | county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times) |
| 令人不快 | lìng rén bù kuài | unpleasant; objectionable |
| 行政命令 | xíng zhèng mìng lìng | executive order |
| 命令行 | mìng lìng háng | (computing) command line |
| 行令 | xíng lìng | to issue orders; to order sb to drink in a drinking game |
| 发令 | fā lìng | to issue an order |
| 法令 | fǎ lìng | decree; ordinance |
| 下令 | xià lìng | to give an order; to issue an order |
| 口令 | kǒu lìng | oral command; a word of command (used in drilling troops or gymnasts); password (used by s… |