让

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to yield; to permit; to let sb do sth; to have sb do sth; to make sb (feel sad etc); by (indicates the agent in a passive clause, like 被[bei4])

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

讠 meaning “speech” + 上 sound ( shàng )

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yield · Heisig RSH #349

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Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
红不让	hóng bù ràng	home run (loanword); a big hit (hugely popular) (Tw)
让胡路区	Ràng hú lù Qū	Ranghulu, a district of Daqing City 大慶市\|大庆市[Da4 qing4 Shi4], Heilongjiang
产权转让	chǎn quán zhuǎn ràng	transfer of property rights; (real estate) title transfer
当仁不让	dāng rén bù ràng	to be unwilling to pass on one's responsibilities to others
可转让	kě zhuǎn ràng	transferable; negotiable
阿比让	Ā bǐ ràng	Abidjan (city in Ivory Coast)
互不相让	hù bù xiāng ràng	neither giving way to the other
可转让证券	kě zhuǎn ràng zhèng quàn	negotiable securities
让胡路	Ràng hú lù	see 讓胡路區\|让胡路区[Rang4 hu2 lu4 Qu1]
承让人	chéng ràng rén	grantee (law)
让利	ràng lì	to give a discount; to make a concession
出让	chū ràng	to transfer (one's property or rights to sb else)
让开	ràng kāi	to get out of the way; to step aside
让路	ràng lù	to make way (for sth)
让球	ràng qiú	to concede points (in a game)
转让	zhuǎn ràng	to transfer (ownership, rights etc)
拱手让人	gǒng shǒu ràng rén	(idiom) to surrender sth without resistance
拱手相让	gǒng shǒu xiāng ràng	(idiom) to surrender sth without resistance
让位	ràng wèi	to abdicate; to yield
寸步不让	cùn bù bù ràng	(idiom) not to yield an inch