令

See also 命

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 亼 + 卩

Han character

令 (radical 9 人+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓戈 (OINI), four-corner 8030₇)

1. command, order
2. ‘commandant’, magistrate
3. allow, cause

Derived characters

• 玲, 命, 齡 (齢 龄), 翎, 苓, 伶, 領, 零, 笭, 柃, 聆, 囹, 泠, 冷, 瓴, 鈴, 軨, 蛉, 魿

References

• KangXi: page 93, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 387
• Dae Jaweon: page 198, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 111, character 10
• Unihan data for U+4EE4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

令 (Yale lim1, ling6)

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Japanese

Kanji

令 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: れい (rei), りょう (ryō)
• Kun: いいつけ (iitsuke), おさ (osa)

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Korean

Hanja

令 (hangeul 령, revised ryeong, McCune-Reischauer ryŏng)

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Mandarin

Noun

令 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin lìng), ling2, ling3

1. [archaic] governor of a county

References

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 1

See also

• 伶 - 冷 - 呤 - 囹 - 岭 - 怜 - 拎 - 泠 - 玲 - 瓴 - 笭 - 羚 - 翎 - 苓 - 蛉 - 聆- 鈴 - 零 - 領 - 齢

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Vietnamese

Han character

令 (lệnh, lanh, lành, lênh, lình, liệng, lịnh, loanh)