令
3 readings · tap one to hear it
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
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 人 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 令
- Common rank
- #573
- Unicode
- U+4EE4
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
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.
Words with 令
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白令海 | Bering Sea | |
| 令人发指 | (idiom) to make one feel a sense of revulsion; abhorrent; heinous; deeply disturbing | |
| 军令如山 | military orders are like mountains (idiom); a military order must be obeyed | |
| 德令哈市 | 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 | lit. order like a mountain; a military order is inviolable; strict discipline | |
| 令人满意 | satisfying; satisfactory | |
| 动员令 | mobilization order | |
| 酒令儿 | erhua variant of 酒令[jiu3 ling4] | |
| 语音指令 | speech command (for computer speech recognition) | |
| 行酒令 | to play a drinking game | |
| 令人 | to cause one (to do sth); to make one (angry, delighted etc) | |
| 县令 | county magistrate (during Tang to Qing times) | |
| 令人不快 | unpleasant; objectionable | |
| 行政命令 | executive order | |
| 命令行 | (computing) command line | |
| 行令 | to issue orders; to order sb to drink in a drinking game | |
| 发令 | to issue an order | |
| 法令 | decree; ordinance | |
| 下令 | to give an order; to issue an order | |
| 口令 | oral command; a word of command (used in drilling troops or gymnasts); password (used by s… |
Sound family
These characters use 令 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 令 sound part | command, decree, order; magistrate; to allow, to cause | |
| 领 | neck, collar; lead, guide | |
| 冷 | cold, cool; lonely | |
| 零 | zero; fragment, fraction | |
| 岭 | mountain ridge, mountain peak | |
| 邻 | neighbor; neighborhood | |
| 龄 | age; years | |
| 铃 | small bell | |
| 怜 | to pity, to sympathize with | |
| 伶 | clever; lonely, solitary | |
| 玲 | the tinkling of jewelry | |
| 羚 | a species of antelope | |
| 鸰 | lark, wagtail; Motacilla species (various) | |
| 苓 | fungus, tuber; licorice | |
| 蛉 | dragonfly, sandfly; Libellulidae | |
| 呤 | purine | |
| 囹 | prison, enclosure | |
| 拎 | to lift, to haul, to take | |
| 翎 | plume, tail feathers |